> not socialized medicine, but rather, a nationalized healthcare insurance system

lol wut

Assuming you earned £50k a year, and you go out and buy your pal a pint for £4, you wouldn't even think about would you? 6 pints later and you still would be happy paying.

Conservatives have never said they won't get paid. Hell, it's the opposite tbh

On that scale (using Bezos' net worth which is flawed but for illustration) for Jeff each pint would cost £13.2 million

They'll be gov't workers. Practically takes an act of congress to get one of them fired

The "progressive" party

The party that trades gibs for votes

I'm still trying to understand how nationalized health insurance is not also socialized medicine

The top and the bottom of society ruling over the middle

So the gov't contracts the labor out. Is that the only difference?

Its all just the degneration of a society

You get to manage things

You get money from the insurance

"Central planning"

I get gibs?

Did someone say gibs

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I get monies from insurance. Where does insurance get monies?

also it was corruption
no regulations doesnt mean its not corruption
laws allowing slavery doesnt mean it wasnt slavery

congressmen upon finishing their term that go to work at companies they passed laws to help that business is corruption
despite no law stopping it

This is starting to sound like Obamacare

a congressmen running a "charity" and putting their family members or themselves on the board and given huge pay due to corporations "donating" to it is corruption

Yes, I would agree.

I don't see how that has anything to do with socialized medicine though lol

Human beings are flawed and there is no system that is going to change this

Corruption exists in all systems

The question is: Who takes on the burden for the more flawed humans?

@Fitzydog its just that you said ""corruption" is a loose word, seeing as there weren't any regulations they were subverting at the time"

But even moreso when things are centrally planned

its just that I took it as you saying that it wasnt corruption because it wasnt agaisnt the law
everyone knew it was shitty

Right and wrong exist whether a government says something is or is not ok

@franti Well, back then, politics didn't really pay as well either. You were better off just staying in the company

You did not need lobbyists

Because the government was not dismantling what you built

There wasn't money in politics, because there was no *politics in money.*

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Before 1995 microsoft did not have a single office in washington

I'm being hyperbolic mostly, but it's sort of true

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He lookin' scruffy.

Now the whole staff has beards lol