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  • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Gee, maybe insurance shouldn’t be a private industry based on profits

      • SoftTeeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Public health insurance is cheaper than private.

        Home insurance on the other hand the Gov wouldn’t be able to cope with, but just like how high medical costs are the result of private industry, so are high home costs.

        If the building of housing was organized as a government service then the costs would be lower/realistic and then a public insurance system would be viable.

        • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          14 hours ago

          If you build houses in a way that maximises combustible area per capita in an area prone to wild fires there’s no amount of resources that will make it sustainable.

          You can see a parallel in healthcare by looking at how European governments tax unhealthy food not to get more revenue but to prevent healthcare costs from ballooning.

          But good luck getting Americans to abandon suburbs.

      • finley@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        16 hours ago

        As a New Yorker, you don’t need to tell me how shitty urban planning can completely screw enormous amounts of people. Just look into Robert Moses. What he did in New York was horrific.