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    They won’t address the mental health problems of this nation because it isn’t profitable to do so.

    They won’t address the gun problem of this nation because of something a slaver jotted down 200+ years ago. And guns are profitable.

    They won’t address mass shootings because then you wouldn’t be living in fear of them and would have time realize how they have ruined everything in the name of profits.

    America is doomed for as long as we care about profit more than people

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      I would like to point out that Reagan dismantled funding for our mental health system and was responsible for the closing of many mental health treatment centers, and Republicans have (to my knowledge) voted against every effort to resurrect it.

      They won’t support restrictions on gun ownership because they say the problem is mental health, but they won’t support spending on mental health either. (Most likely because they seem to oppose anything that would actually help people who suffer.)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980

      https://sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas.html

      This last one is a ddg search - you can just pick which article you want to read about Republicans voting against mental health funding.

      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=republicans+vote+against+mental+health+funding

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        The Republican party really is a hollow shell occupied only by those willing to distract and harm the people rather than help them.

        That’s the politicians and donors at least. They also have a lot of useful idiots.

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      They won’t address the mental health problems because it’s all part of a strategy to keep people scared.

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        Also for hospital systems it’s wildly unprofitable. You make your money in two places in medicine, elective surgeries and in the emergency department. Mental healthcare is slow, in the extreme cases you’re dealing with unpleasant patients that are hostile to the care you’re trying to provide, and you often have to house them and feed them for extended periods of time knowing they don’t have any money to reimburse you.

        That’s why the hospital I’m working at has built a multimillion dollar cardiac surgery tower (not a unit, not a few floors, an entire tower), but scrapped the plans to rebuild the aging and woefully inadequate inpatient psych facility.

        If we can’t squeeze every cent from you we will only do the bare minimum that the CMC requires from us.

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          Making healthcare a for profit endeavour is not in the best interests of society as a whole.

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              Capitalism should exist for non essentials only. I don’t care that candy factories and stores aren’t controlled by the government/its workers, but I sure as hell care that my government is trying to introduce more and more private care facilities in our healthcare system!

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                  Because one is realistic (a system where essential needs are all nationalised but non essentials aren’t, giving a place for greedy people who feel that need to make profit through their work) and the other isn’t (expecting greed to disappear).

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        You could adress it, but it wont save the problem. Look at europe, we ban guns, we dont shoot people every day. We still have mental health problems.

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      America is doomed for as long as we care about profit more than people

      Sorry to break this to you but that’s the literal back bone of your country lol. Slaves much? You still have slavery to this day!

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        Not actual slavery – you can always quit your job and starve to death under a freeway overpass.

        But I think a lot of corporate America would love actual slavery. Look at the way Amazon treats warehouse workers.

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          No, slavery is baked into your constitution, and allows the use of slave labor. To this day. Literally. The 13th amendment. Actual slavery.