• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Those are two very different things.

    Medical technology advancements aside, the insurance industry that began to expand from the 20s onward began to supplant the notion that health care could come without insurance.

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      2 months ago

      It just wasn’t as necessary… most ailments don’t reveal symptoms until they are too late. And now, there are so many perverse incentives that the whole industry is diseased itself.