this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
678 points (99.3% liked)
Work Reform
17604 readers
349 users here now
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm pretty sure private insurance exists in most countries with universal healthcare.
I live in such a country and private insurance exists here, still finds ways to screw over customers. We need more CEO murders
Also it's bribes...ahem, sorry, lobby groups, are the reason why a lot of places with universal healthcare are letting those systems crumble.
I live in a country with free healthcare and private health insurance. I even have private health insurance. But I have it through a nun-profit organisation that pays out ninety-something cents in claims for every dollar of premiums paid. So I'm ok with it.
Is that some kind of Catholic thing? 🥁🐍
It does. Basically all countries with universal healthcare also have a private healthcare sector. It is another ironic fact that countries with universal healthcare has more freedom of choice than people have with the American healthcare system.
In America, we don't learn from watching others. Hell, we don't even learn from our own mistakes.
Come to think of it, we barely even learn in the first place.
Learning would imply Doing Things Differently and we can't have that now can we?
It does, and it's the first step in destroying national health care.
It does, in the Netherlands (my country), we have universal private healthcare.
We used to have universal public/singlepayer, but decades of liberal governance caused it to be privatised.
Yeah, and it's a scourge in those places too