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		Domenic_S on Jan 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wa... > the premium stops going into the pockets of insurance middlemen. This just replaces one middleman (insurance co) for another (government). I can tell by the downvotes that my point whooshed over everyone's head -- my point was essentially yours. Changing who pays isn't going to change anything. We have to change what gets charged.

ceejayoz on Jan 10, 2020 [–]

> We have to change what gets charged.

This is substantially easier to do in a single-payer style system.

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