“People who don’t need to use their health insurance generally approve of it.”
Wow! Such insight!
I just love paying 700 bucks to local spreadsheet holder
Local american
“Ever since I bought my Blue Cross policy I haven’t needed to see the doctor even once. It must be working!”
“I just want everyone to have a good time”
americans are generally happy with their health insurance, unless they’re sick, which is when they need the health insurance, so it’s almost like people who have not yet had to actually deal with their health insurance company beyond sending them money every month are happy with their health insurance because they assume this thing they’re paying for is going to cover them when they time comes that they need it
NPR is such fucking horse shit. i still remember during covid the “two sides of the minimum wage debate” on NPR were side 1. nepobaby who inherited a chain of grocery stores who says raising wages is bad, and side 2. an ‘economist’ who says raising wages is bad. the two sides of the debate.
“two sides of the minimum wage debate”
Just a minute ago I made fun of the “left-right” opinion show on PBS.
“Brooks and Capehart”
David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart analyze the political news of the week.
Capehart is the “left” yet it’s PBS and not the Onion.
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
Now, this is not exactly the same as what Rosa Luxemburg was talking about, but I sure don’t feel like I’m twisting and misrepresenting the quote by using it in this context.
Oh that’s a Rosa quote.
had a similar quote about how a dog doesn’t mind being tied up if it just sits by the peg all day, and it was going through my mind reading this but that’s a better quoteIt is, and I have a really easy time imagining Parenti adapting it for his time.
i used to think that both npr and pbs were rational and balanced; but it’s become clear that they’re not ever i since expanded my feed to outside the united states and independently financed sources like “democracy now” during the election.
now it’s bone chilling for me to see that we’re so thoroughly propagandized that there’s no longer a need to hide it from americans; it’s blatantly an out-in-the-open secret that works simply because americans don’t read, so they’ll never learn from the people who came and tried before them; only our oligarchs have that needful knowledge and they no longer have to bother hiding that education from us.
There are all kinds of apologism and propaganda for the status quo. There are different market segments that need appealing to. NPR is for the middle brow comfortable lib whose live in material comfort or who are on the track to do so (younger professionals). The same frothing chud talking points don’t reach them as well, so the neoliberal brainworms need to be flavoured differently. It’s a different flavour of justification and rationalization of the same horrid capitalism and imperialism.
The same frothing chud talking points don’t reach them as well
what are the liberal froth chud talking points?
I’m thinking of the difference between how trump talks about immigration and the border and how the Biden/DNC blob do, or Fox vs MSNBC. They ultimately all advocate for the same things, a heavily militarized border to protect Americans from subhumans, but they use different rhetoric to do so.
Just wanted to say this is an excellent version and I can’t believe I haven’t heard it as it seems laser targeted to an acquaintance (right down to their interest in amateur radio).
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
A couple major problems with surveys about health insurance in the US:
‘1.) The questions usually do not distinguish between “happy with my health insurance” and “happy TO HAVE health insurance”. Losing your health insurance is a huge way to make workers feel their situation is precarious, so usually folks are just relieved to have it.
‘2.) They usually include Medicare as “health insurance”. Medicare has incredibly high satisfaction rates, and it’s also a de facto universal healthcare program, so of course people love it. But it skews the results pretty bad because Medicare is much closer to universal healthcare than it is an insurance program.----
“The more someone uses this product, the less they like the product”
That’s an abysmal product then
Health insurance is league of legends
With death threats that are slightly more credible, apparently
Isn’t this exactly what they’re getting at? The next line is “Health policy research going back decades shows the American health care system is uniquely maddening to deal with.”
Yes. I think it’s less about inaccurate statements and more about insensitive wording.
“Don’t you know that Americans LIKE giving their money away to private corporations for literally no reason?”
I love paying hundreds of dollars a month for health insurance only to be told ‘no’ when I ask to get what I’ve been paying for.
And in some states, you’re not allowed to choose not to participate in this scam. They outright FORCE you to buy it with the threat of the law.
Thanks, Obama
I very distinctly remember the last time i listened to NPR in 2016 was when they did a segment on health care plan differences between hillary and bernie; lied through their teeth about how bernies plan was bad etc etc. Haven’t listened to NPR since.
That’s like me in 2017. I stopped watching PBS after I finally became a leftist. I can’t believe I was so stupid and actually watched their “left-right” opinion show or any similar garbage from any media outlet. The range of opinion always goes from what they call the “left” - the right-leaning democrat all the way to the “right” - the reasonable republican.
The PBS show is always named after the hosts so it had a different name back then. The “left” host died of old age. I’m not even making that up. I stopped listening to the show when they were debating healthcare. The “left” host was a well-meaning idiot who was not smart enough to understand he was still a ghoul and David Brooks was the “right” working hard to pretend he had a soul and wasn’t a ghoul.
The dead host’s replacement is even worse. Behold…
“Brooks and Capehart”
David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart analyze the political news of the week.
Capehart is the “left” yet it’s PBS and not the Onion. Brooks is 63. And I have to wonder if he will be the “right” host for another couple decades before he retires or he too dies of old age.
oh yeah i remember that brooks and ‘other guy’ show on npr
Out of curiosity - I googled the guy. I couldn’t even remember his name - haha. He retired in 2020 at 83. And he died two years later.
Mark Stephen Shields (May 25, 1937 – June 18, 2022) was an American political columnist, advisor, and commentator. He worked in leadership positions for many Democratic candidates’ electoral campaigns. […] Shields was a regular political commentator on the PBS NewsHour from 1988 to 2020.
I wonder if in those 32 years of “analysis” he ever wrote or spoke a single sentence worthy of his audience’s deep contemplation.
The language of this is so detached. Imagine saying this out loud to someone going through chemo who’s being kicked out of a rehab center by their insurance while they are struggling to regain the use of their atrophied legs.
This is similar to polls about sentiments about police. People who interact with police have negative views, and people who never have to interact with police are generally positive about cops.
I literally have to use direct primary care (pay a subscription fee out of pocket to a doctor) on top of my health insurance because there is no PCP that isn’t a NP with availability anywhere within 150 miles.
My sister is a doctor in a major city and the average wait time is two years to see a doctor with her insurance plan.
The have and have-nots in healthcare are determined if they can afford concierge medicine or direct primary care.
concierge medicine or direct primary care.
In a sane country that would already be some dystopia shit. But in the US it’s even worse because many Americans not only don’t understand the injustice - I bet they still wouldn’t if you explained it to them in detail. So many Americans are simply excepting of money (along with power and influence) being the key thing not concepts like righteousness and justice. Even for healthcare.
And who can afford to min-max their health and not need to fall back on insurance to keep them from dying? Rich people, the very same bougie rich pmc assholes that read NPR.
News just in people who don’t need to use their health insurance happier with it
just don’t get sick, ez (I am pre-existing condition maxxing)
there’s a distinction here that I haven’t fully articulated yet, between people being (relatively) ok with the constant monthly fees and debt, but not ok with being ripped off or not getting their money’s worth
what do with this thought?
They can stay afloat
