• Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 hours ago

    Read: Lawmakers continue to fail to properly regulate the healthcare industry, leading to uncertainty and litigation potential, therefore nytimes points the finger at AI. Another day, another dollar, in first world USA.

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      2 hours ago

      American lawmakers don’t fall from the sky. They represent the values of the american people. The New York Times has published hundreds of articles about healthcare industry abuses. It’s just that people don’t care.

      Americans overwhelmingly elect lawmakers that oppose regulating the healthcare industry.

      In 2003, the US Congress voted the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which banned Medicare, the country’s largest single-payer health care system, from negotiating drug prices.

      Medicare drug price negotiation was eventually authorized in 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Half of the US Senate opposed this bill.

      Florida Senator Rick Scott defrauded Medicare/Medicaid of hundreds of millions of dollars to enrich his own healthcare company, using fake invoices. He was still elected.

      Americans aren’t victims.

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        4 hours ago

        American lawmakers don’t fall from the sky. They represent the values of the american people.

        Lmao. You must have no idea how American elections work.

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          2 hours ago

          Sorry, but this is true.

          Mitch McConnell has served in the US Senate for decades.

          He voted against every single labor rights bills. Every. Single. One.

          He voted against paid leave bills. Every. Single. One.

          https://popular.info/p/mcconnell-out-sick-for-two-months

          For decades, the people of Kentucky reelected him. They truly love him.

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            4 hours ago

            You’re arguing against a completely different point.

            I’m not saying these people weren’t elected. I’m saying that American elections results have become increasingly distant from the values of their constituents for multiple reasons.