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Written by Dave Mackey on 2024-12-31 at 16:53

1/3 - In the #USA the #political fight over universal healthcare (UHC) has been raging for many years. While #UHC has almost always seemed unlikely for us, the likelihood of it occurring in the next four years approaches zero.

so my #question is, why don't we just do it? forget about the political fight.

I am certainly naive, but why can't we

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Written by Dave Mackey on 2024-12-31 at 16:57

2/3 - form a cost sharing network in a non-sectarian form as some #Christian organizations seem to have successfully done for numerous years now?

There are a large number of them out there, there are legitimate concerns about #scams, but it seems at least Medi-Share and Samaritan Ministries have been successfully and legitimately providing services for years.

I know the #Obamacare exemption for cost sharing is based on a religious exemption, but this should be possible even for

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Written by Dave Mackey on 2024-12-31 at 17:00

3/3 - those who hold no specific creed - whether agnostic, atheist, etc. There are "churches" for these are there not?

So what keeps people from collaborating together to build a non-sectarian cost sharing network?

I would like to be educated on this matter, so please feel free to inform me on why this wouldn't work. I'm all ears. 🙂

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Written by Dan Lyke on 2024-12-31 at 18:05

@davidshq trust? Beyond the challenges of starting a large organization in a legislative environment shaped by the monopoly players, knowing that the results aren't gonna be super scammy like the church-based ones are.

Like "hey, the biggest economic risk in your life, we want to amplify that" is a hard sales pitch.

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Written by Dave Mackey on 2024-12-31 at 18:44

@danlyke So I hear you, but:

• Not all of them are scams, some have been working successfully for years, e.g. https://www.medishare.com/ (1993) and https://samaritanministries.org/ (1994) [at least last I checked 🤞]

• To start I'd see this as mainly reaching people who don't currently have healthcare and supplemented by those who do and who are willing to support a project to build a universal healthcare system.

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Written by Dan Lyke on 2024-12-31 at 18:48

@davidshq fair. As a non-believer I am predisposed to view anything advertising itself as Christian with a serious side-eye...

So... I find your ideas intriguing, though/and: as a Californian I'm gonna be pushing hard for single-payer here.

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