"In total, 21.7 million comments were submitted electronically and posted online for review."

that's a metric fuck-ton of comments

"Of the 21.7 million comments posted, 6% were unique. The other 94% were submitted multiple times – in some cases, hundreds of thousands of times. In fact, the seven most-submitted comments (six of which argued against net neutrality regulations) comprise 38% of all the submissions over the four-month comment period."

so it was basically a clusterfuck of who knows?

"The most common “name”... in nearly 17,000 instances ... [was] “Net Neutrality”"

"“The Internet” also appeared as the name in almost 7,500 submissions. "

As a seperate name, "net neutrality" also had about 5,000 submissions.

I've been on the end of this. The campaigners were quoting 100ks of people had written in but we binned 90% of them cus they were cut paste

cut and paste ain't YOUR opinion

a whole load more were edited versions of a template they posted on facebook

didn't bin those but still....

So NN was full of shills?

Of course

What a shocker /s

This is why they’ll never get anything achieved

It can just be flagged as a bot shitting out spam and the lazy congressmen can just ignore what ever emails were unique

you know.

I was reading something unrelated to NN, yet it summed up why... or at least one of the reasons why, I am so skeptical of it

Many people seem to point to Australia as having a great healthcare system because of the mix between private and public

Just like the UK 👌🏿

thus assuming it has a good balance between 'the big three' (that you supposedly can only have two of), being affordability, quality and accessibility

howeverrrrrrrrrrrrrr

what they don't tell you

Is that the government has bulldozed it's way into private health insurers and how they can provide them to their own customers

Let me find the relevant page on the Gov's DOH website

a'ight.

"Lifetime Health Cover is a Government initiative which was introduced on 1 July 2000, and designed to encourage people to take out hospital insurance earlier in life, and to maintain their cover over their lifetime."

sounds good, right? Get people off of public healthcare and into the private sector, save taxpayer dollars

"What is Lifetime Health Cover?
Lifetime Health Cover (LHC) is a financial loading that can be payable in addition to the base rate premium for your private health insurance hospital cover."

But how does it compel people to get private health?

"How do I avoid paying an **LHC loading**?
To avoid paying a LHC loading, you need to purchase hospital cover by 1 July **following your 31st birthday**. If you purchase hospital cover **after** this date you may be required to **pay a LHC loading** – **2% for each year you are over 30**. The loading is **removed after 10 years** of continuous hospital insurance cover."

wait, *what*?

"For instance, if you **wait until you are 40**, you could be paying an **extra 20% on the cost of your hospital cover**. If you wait until you are **50**, you could pay **40% more**. And so on, up to a maximum of 70% more."

This is for the **next ten years**, btw

but what does this have to do with NN?

"In Australia, **private health insurance is not ‘risk-rated’ like most forms of insurance**. Private health insurers **cannot refuse to insure any person**, and **must charge everyone the same premium for the same level of cover**, despite their risk profile and **likelihood of using health services.**"

Look after yourself?

Eat healthy?

Sleep well?

Don't smoke?