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IronLionZion

(51,278 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:21 AM Dec 2025

Canada's Medicare was created for small rural provinces like Saskatchewan

because it's not very profitable to insure patients in a state like Wyoming. Fewer people means smaller risk pool.

So urban areas and more populous states will have more options to choose from. Supposedly competition is good for consumers.

There are rural minorities and urban whites, but MAGA is disproportionately rural so they are screwing themselves hardest.

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