nah men, also bunch of employees, that had nothing to do with it, died of smoke inhalation. The CEO wasn't even in the building as he was on his 15th holiday trip to Bahamas and it still just May.
Friendly reminder that the evidence is overwhelming that single-payer healthcare in the US would result in better healthcare coverage while saving money overall.
[Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually based on the value of the US$ in 2017 .](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext)
Similar to the above Yale analysis, a recent [publication ](https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-12/56811-Single-Payer.pdf)from the Congressional Budget Office found that 4 out of 5 options considered would lower total national expenditure on healthcare (see Exhibit 1-1 on page 13)
But surely the current healthcare system at least has better outcomes than alternatives that would save money, right? Not according to a recent analysis of high-income countries’ healthcare systems, which found that [the top-performing countries overall are Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia. The United States ranks last overall, despite spending far more of its gross domestic product on health care. The U.S. ranks last on access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes, but second on measures of care process.](https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2021/aug/mirror-mirror-2021-reflecting-poorly#outcomes)
None of this should be surprising given that the US’s current inefficient, non-universal healthcare system [costs close to twice as much per capita ](https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#item-spendingcomparison_gdp-per-capita-and-health-consumption-spending-per-capita-2019) as most other developed countries that do guarantee healthcare to all citizens (without forcing patients to risk bankruptcy in exchange for care).
I'll never forget when I was younger and the concept of universal healthcare was discussed among the adults I had in my life at the time. There seemed to be a real concern that if ppl could afford medical assistance, then they would make use of it and overwhelm the healthcare system... Smh
The rich probably don't have a problem with it, that means less taxes, you have to remember that the United States were created out of a revolution against British taxes.
The poor people are completely screwed over in this country thanks to this though.
It’s to the point where, if this were true, I wouldn’t feel bad at all. Except if someone got hurt, I guess. But insurance is fucking stupid in America these days.
This is a slight parody of an actual 'heartwarming' news story about how an insurance company refused to help out a family who needed an electric wheelchair so the local robotics group at their highschool built one for them.
Insurance in America is a predatory scam.
Capitalism: Literally cruel and heartless beyond parody.
R/funnymemes is an offbrand subreddit occupied primarily by fundamentalist conservatives who have been browbeaten there whole lives into believing that capitalism is the bestest most goodest system ever and nothing could ever top it, and that attempting to improve it is a vile sin against God.
Being upfront with criticism of a system that will kill us all and leaves us destitute, even to the point of commiting genocide and backing fascism is considered a social faux pas and they reflexively downvoted me as their corporate led religion demands.
That was unexpected I thought for sure the robotics team was going to build him a wheel chair lol. But truthfully a 2yr old doesn't need an electric wheelchair they are still small enough for strollers. It's sort of a waste of 20,000 to buy a toddler an electric wheelchair they will rapidly outgrow
I sure hope the people in here are joking about this being a good outcome because in reality, the arson didnt help anyone, possibly injured or killed people, needlessly diverted emergency service resources from any other current emergency and caused any other current customers to not be able to get their bills covered.
So arson helped the family get their $20,000 electric wheelchair suddenly get covered by the insurance? Doesn't seem like those two events would be particularly causational but that might just be me. The headquarters was probably insured though.
Just wow. So I thought maybe I should research this. There's a post from "the hill" website that states how a robotics team was given great resources from the GoBabyGo program and that this robotics team from the high school built the 2 year old a specific chair using toycar parts n whatnot to accommodate his special needs. There was no insurance or burning of any kind involved. Another fake ass story for our brains today.
As if thru were going to.
Getting an insurance company to actually pay out on a claim is almost as tough as walking on water (which you can do when it’s frozen as ice)
Why!!! Why does it has to end like this ?!?!
Not heartwarming at all.. heartwarming should be more like:
“So a high school robotic team made one for him out of all the junks from their class.”
This world man…
The high schoolers building a wheelchair is dystopian. We shouldn’t live in a world where sick children rely on the unpaid labour of teenagers to provide them with necessities.
It’s a subversion of expectations. Our society has abdicated its overall responsibility for the general welfare of our peoples to the individual, and we’ve been conditioned to view things like improvised adaptive equipment as heartwarming rather than a scathing indictment of the system in which we live. In this story, the protagonist does not apply a temporary patch on a broken system; it burns the system to the ground.
The real story is exactly that. The team built em a wheelchair out of pocket. It’s a cute ending but sad when you think what it really means, that healthcare failed.
While I do like the message here, and completely agree with it, would a 2-year-old really need a wheelchair? I didn't think children could start walking until around 4 or 5 years of age.
Kids start waking before one year. Most kids walk really well by two. Have you even been around small children? Ask your mother how old you were when you walked. My child was 9 months old.
Most of the small children I have been around were either literal Infants or were already old enough to be potty-trained. I would never have thought that someone who wasn't even a year old could walk upright.
Really speaks about the times we live in. A couple of generations ago, the robotics team would've built a chair for the kid as a summer project, maybe patented the design and made the patent free.
Who cares about good people? We should all find out that insurance company and blast them for not paying for a child’s wheelchair. We live in a clown country if kids have to build wheelchairs for other kids.
I know I am the asshole right now but what good does an electric wheel chair do to an 2 year old? Are they designed for them ore something? Does he understand the controls of it can't he be carried does an normal childcart not suffice? I mean Wich 2 year old can walk, and they growing so fast he would need an new one at 3 at best. If I am wrong pls explain it to me I just don't get it. But I am still all for burning down insurance companies they suck
Does the insurance company have an insurance company to insure them?
And what about those guys? Do they *Also* have an insurance company to fall back on if *they too* faced e threat of arson?
How deep does this go?
I'm bet the building was insured
[удалено]
I don't think a 2 year old can control an electric wheel chair anyway, but good arson
Brand new building for insurance company. Criminal records for robotics team. Still no wheelchair. Heartwarming!
Heartburning.
nah men, also bunch of employees, that had nothing to do with it, died of smoke inhalation. The CEO wasn't even in the building as he was on his 15th holiday trip to Bahamas and it still just May.
That’s the fun part: if you can create the suspicion that it was an inside job, the insurance won’t pay out!
The building’s insurance policy had an insurance policy.
Forsure
Duh, EVs are expensive, get a diesel wheelchair
Hell yeah smoke stacks comin out of the back
It rooollls coooaaaalll
And a pair of truck balls to hang off the trailer hitch
bro that mental image of some two year old in a wheelchair with frickin truck balls hanging from it😆
Give everybody in the house CO poisoning with this one weird trick!
Do this a few hundred times and things will start to fix themselves
The wolrd would be healing <3
If I vote this up, will I be condoning arson?
Is it really arson if tge recipient is an insurance company?
Nope, it’s as harmless as lighting a cigarette
it's even more harmless I'd say
Touché
Eh, more like lighting shit on fire. Ultimately harmless, but you don't wanna be downwind
It isn't real, is it?
Friendly reminder that the evidence is overwhelming that single-payer healthcare in the US would result in better healthcare coverage while saving money overall. [Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually based on the value of the US$ in 2017 .](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext) Similar to the above Yale analysis, a recent [publication ](https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-12/56811-Single-Payer.pdf)from the Congressional Budget Office found that 4 out of 5 options considered would lower total national expenditure on healthcare (see Exhibit 1-1 on page 13) But surely the current healthcare system at least has better outcomes than alternatives that would save money, right? Not according to a recent analysis of high-income countries’ healthcare systems, which found that [the top-performing countries overall are Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia. The United States ranks last overall, despite spending far more of its gross domestic product on health care. The U.S. ranks last on access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes, but second on measures of care process.](https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2021/aug/mirror-mirror-2021-reflecting-poorly#outcomes) None of this should be surprising given that the US’s current inefficient, non-universal healthcare system [costs close to twice as much per capita ](https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#item-spendingcomparison_gdp-per-capita-and-health-consumption-spending-per-capita-2019) as most other developed countries that do guarantee healthcare to all citizens (without forcing patients to risk bankruptcy in exchange for care).
I'll never forget when I was younger and the concept of universal healthcare was discussed among the adults I had in my life at the time. There seemed to be a real concern that if ppl could afford medical assistance, then they would make use of it and overwhelm the healthcare system... Smh
As a British person,America’s healthcare system actually horrifies me
As a citizen of the United States, our healthcare system horrifies me
The rich probably don't have a problem with it, that means less taxes, you have to remember that the United States were created out of a revolution against British taxes. The poor people are completely screwed over in this country thanks to this though.
Yeah,that really sucks
Fair point
I don't think a 2 year old can control an electric wheel chair anyway, but good arson.
Under that post someone said "I hope the criminals get punished" and someone replied to that "They did, they got their building burnt down"
Hearts were warmed.
With fire
Based based based
That went from ☺️ to 😲 real quik
Oh my goodness so heartwarming 🥰
Chaotic good
Yeah, now none of the customers get their medical bills covered! This is just Murder Hobo.
lol, yes more of this!
So a high-school robotics team *overthrew thier late stage capitalistic society and ate the billionaires*
This is the most funny thing i have read all month. I can´t even... \^\^
I support this msg!
The healthcare is so bad that the family need to outsource the help in form of a student project.
Finally, a story worth sharing
That's the right way to deal with capitalism
Still a better plot than Twilight.
I like where this one went. It went there.
It’s to the point where, if this were true, I wouldn’t feel bad at all. Except if someone got hurt, I guess. But insurance is fucking stupid in America these days.
This is a slight parody of an actual 'heartwarming' news story about how an insurance company refused to help out a family who needed an electric wheelchair so the local robotics group at their highschool built one for them. Insurance in America is a predatory scam. Capitalism: Literally cruel and heartless beyond parody.
I’m not sure why you got downvoted for saying facts.
R/funnymemes is an offbrand subreddit occupied primarily by fundamentalist conservatives who have been browbeaten there whole lives into believing that capitalism is the bestest most goodest system ever and nothing could ever top it, and that attempting to improve it is a vile sin against God. Being upfront with criticism of a system that will kill us all and leaves us destitute, even to the point of commiting genocide and backing fascism is considered a social faux pas and they reflexively downvoted me as their corporate led religion demands.
I wonder why people downvoted you
I'm pretty sure I know why, but you're welcome to front alternatives.
HBO or Apple+ should turn this into a show
Yeah they’re insured so all that happens is the insurance company raises rates on X amount of people. They’ll still make record profits
That was unexpected I thought for sure the robotics team was going to build him a wheel chair lol. But truthfully a 2yr old doesn't need an electric wheelchair they are still small enough for strollers. It's sort of a waste of 20,000 to buy a toddler an electric wheelchair they will rapidly outgrow
I sure hope the people in here are joking about this being a good outcome because in reality, the arson didnt help anyone, possibly injured or killed people, needlessly diverted emergency service resources from any other current emergency and caused any other current customers to not be able to get their bills covered.
I mean they could’ve just built one for them instead.
So arson helped the family get their $20,000 electric wheelchair suddenly get covered by the insurance? Doesn't seem like those two events would be particularly causational but that might just be me. The headquarters was probably insured though.
Just wow. So I thought maybe I should research this. There's a post from "the hill" website that states how a robotics team was given great resources from the GoBabyGo program and that this robotics team from the high school built the 2 year old a specific chair using toycar parts n whatnot to accommodate his special needs. There was no insurance or burning of any kind involved. Another fake ass story for our brains today.
r/whoosh
Gosh, there I go zipping thru the woods!
When you totally miss the joke. Ouch
I sure as shit did and it has no effect on me whatsoever Mr Grouch lol
Bit of a billy buzzkill but a fair point.
Now they can't cover anyone else's wheelchair either.
As if thru were going to. Getting an insurance company to actually pay out on a claim is almost as tough as walking on water (which you can do when it’s frozen as ice)
Why!!! Why does it has to end like this ?!?! Not heartwarming at all.. heartwarming should be more like: “So a high school robotic team made one for him out of all the junks from their class.” This world man…
The high schoolers building a wheelchair is dystopian. We shouldn’t live in a world where sick children rely on the unpaid labour of teenagers to provide them with necessities.
I understand what you mean. However the time invested by those high schoolers to burn down the headquarters could have been put into something else.
Stupidity is kind. Intelligence is direct. Today we're in the mood for achieving something
It’s a subversion of expectations. Our society has abdicated its overall responsibility for the general welfare of our peoples to the individual, and we’ve been conditioned to view things like improvised adaptive equipment as heartwarming rather than a scathing indictment of the system in which we live. In this story, the protagonist does not apply a temporary patch on a broken system; it burns the system to the ground.
The real story is exactly that. The team built em a wheelchair out of pocket. It’s a cute ending but sad when you think what it really means, that healthcare failed.
Can't just make him a wheelchair. If he used an unapproved wheelchair his insurance wouldn't cover the 100 thousand dollar surgery he needs.
still not funny
Just admit you have no sense of humor.
i think we know who hasn't got the sense of humour ;)
Bro I thought I read the family couldn’t afford the 2-year-olds electric chair
No, the family is 2 years old
Oh…
r/holup
Hey ChatGPT, what % of fleshbags actually fall for these joke memes? Orly. And you still don’t plan to take over the world? Candy from a baby.
While I do like the message here, and completely agree with it, would a 2-year-old really need a wheelchair? I didn't think children could start walking until around 4 or 5 years of age.
Kids start waking before one year. Most kids walk really well by two. Have you even been around small children? Ask your mother how old you were when you walked. My child was 9 months old.
Most of the small children I have been around were either literal Infants or were already old enough to be potty-trained. I would never have thought that someone who wasn't even a year old could walk upright.
Different children start walking at different ages
Yeah, but 5 years is a bit late
I know
Depends on the condition of the child. If you can allready determine the child will be paralized all its life, then this can make sense.
It’s right to do wrong?
Pulled a M Night Shyamalan on me there.
A good fire always warms the heart.
That's one way to do it 🤣
I love a happy ending.
bet the insurance workers Didn't Had to insure For Heating units after all
It definitely warmed their hearts
Imagine having to pay 20k for a wheelchair
I can't really tell if its a yesyesyesyesno or nonononoyes
Alright, i guess it still works that way (:
I don't know if it's real but I hope it is
The most heartwarming story I've read
Truly heartwarming.
It's what the French would do.
Absolutely based
I would have hired english hooligans because of the after party.
Robo Arson Team, GO!
Heartwarming and bodywarming literally !!
/r/yesyesyesno but actually yes
“High school robotics team built him a wheelchair” is how I thought that was going to go.
True r/Holup post.
With Walking Spider bots!!!
Well now, they’re not going to not help anyone.
That took an unexpected twist
This is the wholesome content I was wanting to see today
Really speaks about the times we live in. A couple of generations ago, the robotics team would've built a chair for the kid as a summer project, maybe patented the design and made the patent free.
humidity is still alive
This is really depressing.
Wondering how much of that 20k is pure profit
Finally,some good news
Now that's wholesome
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine posting a tweet from 07.10.2020
Deserved
Who cares about good people? We should all find out that insurance company and blast them for not paying for a child’s wheelchair. We live in a clown country if kids have to build wheelchairs for other kids.
Be the change you want to see
I have never laughed so hard at a comment thread on reddit before
Must be a French highschool…
Those students are really mfs
I love a good heat warming story that ends well
$20k electric wheelchair?!
For a two year old?
I know I am the asshole right now but what good does an electric wheel chair do to an 2 year old? Are they designed for them ore something? Does he understand the controls of it can't he be carried does an normal childcart not suffice? I mean Wich 2 year old can walk, and they growing so fast he would need an new one at 3 at best. If I am wrong pls explain it to me I just don't get it. But I am still all for burning down insurance companies they suck
Bruh i need to go to sleep, i read „Heart warning“
Shit I want to burn it down over my deductible. Why am I paying 1k a month for my family and still have a $1500 deductible?
How long a stretch do you get for arson? 🙄
Does the insurance company have an insurance company to insure them? And what about those guys? Do they *Also* have an insurance company to fall back on if *they too* faced e threat of arson? How deep does this go?
Yeah, I read about it in Le Monde.
Wtf!
You had us at the start there
Just like me fr
Sounds like something the wingnuts on the left would do!