• Vingst [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Market-based healthcare favors perpetual treatment over permanent cures or preventative medicine, like dialysis over kidney transplants, insulin instead of diet and exercise. If you have rare disease than you are just fucked, because pharmaceutical companies just want to sell dick pills. A market’s purpose is to maximize revenue, not patient well-being.

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      19 hours ago

      Not if it is a socialized market that disallows corporate ownership in favor of consumer coöperative ownership.