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I'm sure they're talking about necessary healthcare - e.g., cancer drugs, insulin, dialysis, heart surgery, etc.

When giving the option of parting ways with some more money or dying, virtually no one is going to choose the latter.

Unfortunately, the US healthcare system is set up to extract maximum capital from people who interact with it. Worse: it's not alone. For example, the reason food in the US has so much sugar, salt, and fat in it is that the food industry has carefully engineered processed foods to be more addictive so people will buy more of it.

We live in one of the most exploitative societies in the world, and it's only getting worse over time.



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