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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2022-05-10

"Amid America's #COVID19 disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spent big $$ to push the idea that Canada's single-payer system was awful & the U.S. system much better. It was a lie & the nations' COVID responses prove it. [...]

"Here's the truth: Our industry PR & lobbying group, AHIP, supplied my colleagues & me with cherry-picked data & anecdotes to make people think Canadians wait endlessly for their care. It's a lie & I'll always regret the disservice I did to folks on both sides of the border.

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"You learn a lot about a healthcare system when a global crisis hits & different nations have different results. Canada's single-payer system is saving lives. The U.S. profit-driven corporate model is failing.

"I'll regret slandering Canada's system for the rest of my life."

-- Wendell Potter ([twitter.com profile] wendellpotter), president of The Center for Health and Democracy, former vice-president of CIGNA, 2020-06-25

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minoanmiss: A detail of the Ladies in Blue fresco (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 02:11pm on 2022-05-10
I mean, they killed people with the lie, but it's nice of him to say so.
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extraarcha: US flag inverted - distress & alarm (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] extraarcha at 03:40pm on 2022-05-10
He's only 'apologizing' for slandering Canada's system, not for all the US citizens they killed and withheld medical care from. I guess they're not important?
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dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] dewline at 03:25pm on 2022-05-10
Note: there is still a campaign to dismantle Canada's health care system...from within Canada. The federal Conservatives and their various provincial-level partner-parties across the country are still working on carrying it out.
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posted by [personal profile] conuly at 03:27pm on 2022-05-10
They say talk is cheap, but regret is too. What's he gonna do to fix the mess he helped make worse?
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extraarcha: US flag inverted - distress & alarm (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] extraarcha at 03:36pm on 2022-05-10
Oh, my.... you can't imagine how surprising this is to me!
    (or anyone paying the least amount of attention ... )

The U.S. so-called "health care" is (?)provided(?) by corporations. If anyone wants to pretend these constructs are "people", then you'd also have to admit they are soulless, heartless and totally psychopathic. In it only for themselves. To them, you exist only to return to them the money you've been keeping from them.

If in fact there are "good people" working in these corporations, they exist mostly at the entry levels. There is no way those at the top of these ... um, i'll keep it clean and say: places ... can claim to not know exactly what they're intentionally doing and that the results are harmful to those they mistreat.

Sorry for the rant, but this guy is saying no more than that he didn't eat the whole corpse and now has a tummy ache. BAH!
Edited Date: 2022-05-10 03:38 pm (UTC)
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minoanmiss: A Minoan Harper, wearing a long robe, sitting on a rock (Minoan Harper)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 01:00am on 2022-05-11
this guy is saying no more than that he didn't eat the whole corpse and now has a tummy ache.

*cackles in agreement*
*adds phrase to my lexicon*
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