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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's roughly 190,000 thousand deaths annually in the US believed to be directly caused by insurance and access issues.

https://pnhp.org/news/estimated-us-deaths-associated-with-health-insurance-access-to-care/

Yes it's an onion article but it's not untrue, just not a specific example. So why not upvote it in general acknowledgement of the issue? They don't need a specific example because we all know how much of a problem insurance in the US especially in part because is tied to work for most people (and, well, this is work reform)

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

190k a year, that's some extermination camp shit.

They are slowly working towards their goal of 100 Million Americans.

[–] Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

The governments answer to affordable housing more deaths then births. Eventually cheap housing for all as not enough people to fill them

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The onion framing this as satire is really doing the cause a disservice.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago

What? Satire is to make fun of human failing. This is what satire is and is for.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

...do you understand satire?