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created by WhoIsJolyonWest on 02/02/2025 at 10:28 UTC
6160 upvotes, 107 top-level comments (showing 25)
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Comment by not_a_bot716 at 02/02/2025 at 11:22 UTC*
362 upvotes, 10 direct replies
You don’t have to imagine it, Millions do get their health care through unions. Most unions in building trades do.
Comment by jeophys152 at 02/02/2025 at 10:42 UTC
339 upvotes, 12 direct replies
I don’t like it.
1. I don’t like healthcare being tied to employment. Everyone should have healthcare regardless of their employment status.
2. It’s a level of bureaucracy that unions shouldn’t be involved in. That means that unions will have to manage insurance. If money becomes tight, the unions will have to make decisions the members won’t like. There are already enough people that have been brainwashed into thinking that unions are bad. Imagine if union run insurance had to start denying claims or raising premiums out of necessity. Just one more excuse for people to be anti union.
Comment by Mammoth_Grocery_1982 at 02/02/2025 at 11:03 UTC
121 upvotes, 6 direct replies
They'll suggest anything that isn't universal healthcare.
Comment by Beneficial-Honeydew5 at 02/02/2025 at 11:53 UTC
33 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Chaining healthcare to employment chains the working class to their job. Without that chain, workers would have far greater freedom to seek out work that is best for them and their family. Workers would be free to switch employers midyear without thought to money already spent on their deductible.
Universal healthcare (or Medicare-for-All) would help unchain us.
Shifting responsibility to workers and unions is capitalist misdirection. The only solution is federal policy guaranteeing universal healthcare.
Comment by wimpydimpy at 02/02/2025 at 11:58 UTC
11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Healthcare shouldn’t be tied to employment. It should exist for everyone without a bill at the end. It should be a public good you benefit from that requires 0 navigation. It should be simple and universal.
Comment by baking_nerd433 at 02/02/2025 at 14:25 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Don’t trust a billionaire who offers “solutions” that inevitably will keep private insurance afloat. The only way forward is a single payer system. It will allow our unions more power to bargain for better wages, protections, and what not as they will have one less thing to bargain for at the table.
Comment by DavidGoetta at 02/02/2025 at 14:10 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It's a billionaire profiting from healthcare telling us to figure it out ourselves instead of helping.
Comment by _V3rt1g0_ at 02/02/2025 at 15:34 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Can't work? Sorry, no healthcare. Don't like it at ALL!
Comment by WorldlyCupcake5345 at 02/02/2025 at 15:37 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Imagine if you didn't have to depend on a job for healthcare!
Comment by No_Manufacturer_1911 at 02/02/2025 at 10:42 UTC
25 upvotes, 1 direct replies
That would break the employer stranglehold of healthcare connected to an employer. This would give power back to workers.
That would possibly make some small employers more open to a unionized workforce.
Comment by RightingArm at 02/02/2025 at 11:38 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I get my healthcare through my multi-employer union. I’m going to buy into it as a pensioner, too.
Comment by GarbonzosGuy at 02/02/2025 at 14:49 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Imagine if we just had healthcare
Comment by corkscrew-duckpenis at 02/02/2025 at 14:56 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Let’s not build more Rube Goldberg machines that circle the perimeter of universal healthcare and just do universal healthcare.
Comment by alroprezzy at 02/02/2025 at 14:38 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If DOGE were serious it would offer universal healthcare instead of the current system because it’s cheaper
Comment by 254_easy at 02/02/2025 at 12:56 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
seems similar to the way building trades unions handle health care currently.
Comment by PerpetualEternal at 02/02/2025 at 13:26 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
in any conceivable way that doesn’t rely on the input of a gajillionaire sitting around “having ideas”
Comment by Less_Compote_4840 at 02/02/2025 at 13:27 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This was actually a good thing, Boilermakers used to have their own healthcare through Boilermakers Health and Welfare and it was great! Go to whatever doc you wanted and knew you were covered after copay.Whenever there was a question just called them and they sorted it out right on the spot,no games like now.Its actually cheaper to just pay directly to Doctor or Hospital with no middle man.I thought they changed the laws tho so Unions and others couldn't do this.
Comment by Commercial-Mood-3167 at 02/02/2025 at 14:20 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
IBEW!!! Does this!!! Great Prices
Comment by Knowaa at 02/02/2025 at 14:58 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Many unions already have health care infrastructure for their members, look at UNITE HERE, they have an entire hospital in New York and many clinics in Vegas
Comment by AnarchyFennec at 02/02/2025 at 16:05 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If we can actually achieve a general strike in 2028, even without full participation, we'll be in a very strong position to demand universal Healthcare.
Comment by Pandabumone at 02/02/2025 at 16:36 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Billionaires will do anything to circumvent a universal, single-payer system that most of the developed world uses.
Comment by -WaxedSasquatch- at 02/02/2025 at 17:14 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Orrrr a National Health Service. Dental. Vision. Healthcare!
I’m absolutely pro union, and this is light years better than what we have currently, but let’s not settle for less.
Comment by Upper_Restaurant4034 at 02/02/2025 at 19:10 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Imagine if unions were able to do this for small private businesses at lower costs. Game changer for real.
Comment by Upbeat-Sprinkles5825 at 02/02/2025 at 21:37 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
He’s thinking! Time for innovative ideas!
Comment by Bud-light-3863 at 02/02/2025 at 23:00 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Cuban is talking about offering Union healthcare benefits to non union small businesses to offer lower healthcare premiums than ACA healthcare offers. More people will lower Union healthcare premiums!
