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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 11h

What's your take on the public taking over the health insurance market? 25 cents a piece would fund a formidable think-tank. People want an executive solution. Not a political debate.

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 18h

Smaug was the living force of destructive accumulation. Like a spirit manifested by a 'might-as-right' theology. Bilbo learned bravery by the dwarves, and he taught them. As Thorin's last words show, “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 2d

The numbers are on our side.
thehill.com/policy/healt...

thehill.com

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone wanna David the Goliaths this year?

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 2d

Health Insurance consultants are shaking in their boots. If you see this message, and you want to apply leverage. NOW is the time to organize. A public campaign Boycotting health insurance this year will propagate a tsunami. We could have the power. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Is it cheaper to pay for medical care without health insurance?

Hospitals or clinics may offer cash-only discounts to people who pay without insurance. But experts warn that health care isn't the place to bargain for the best deal.

www.nbcnews.com

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 7d

It's a structural conflict of interest between corporate profit and healthcare www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h...

The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed

“The market competition, managed care, and ‘corporate efficiency’ that economists prescribed as the cure for health care inflation instead accelerated it.”

www.statnews.com

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 13d

Hell yeah! Shots fired

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin

Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

www.politico.com

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 21d

You may think I'm nuts but the same groups involved in scrapping our local news are involved in healthcare and the chemical industry. Working in concert they are functionally acting as a form of hybrid warfare.

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 21d

Hello, I have a thread that weaves a 125 year story of malfeasance in the chemical industry.

From westward expansion to capitalizing on Nazi demand for airplane fuel to an industry funded scientific subversion campaign to poisoning our rivers to Alden Global capital and the Hartford Courant

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 21d

The same thing that happened to our healthcare system happened to our localn news papers

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink | PBS share.google/EhH6kMqzhiJp...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

share.google

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 22d

Wanna help me strike the match? I've got a strategy

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 22d

Imagine if they ended up traveling to the blue states to mulch the parks and plant trees! How beautiful that would be

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 22d

If you care about our health, Please don't let the USACE poison our rivers.

Climate change will allow "invasives" to establish themselves in newly warmed water systems.

Chemicals will not amend this

Put on your thinking cap and take care of our health

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · 28d

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 30

Listen to the US government fumble with our healthcare. Disappointing but expected. We don't have to live on our knees.
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5556...

🔊 Listen Now: Congressional leaders met with President Trump ahead of shutdown deadline

All Things Considered on NPR One | 6:48

one.npr.org

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

If they won't sell, the public can take actions to toxify their branding. For example Investigate journalism. Finding issues with employees to motivate employee actions. Persistent small scale protests outside of the company headquarters would create an atmosphere of crisis for the executives

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

For example let's say UK's Circle Health Group would cost £1 billion to buy. Divide that by the UK population 67.6 million. With 50% population buy-in it would cost individuals £29.59 to acquire a billion £ company. Even if they double the price, that's less than £60.

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

No harm in critique! What I'm proposing is a new way of managing the market. It would allow the public to weaponize their purchasing power. Sort of how BlackRock/Vanguard operate. Every year, the public would have an opportunity to voluntarily pay into proposed acquisitions.

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

For example we could buy an insulin factory and change the selling price. Competitors would have to change their pricing to compete. Even if we don't capture 100% of the insulin market we will have a regulatory market influence. Profits can be rolled into the next strategic acquisition

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

the directing Board will have dedicated slots in order to attain an optimal executive system. doctors, financiers, policy experts, merger and acquisition planners. If enough people buy into the idea we could take over Goliaths and change how they operate within the market.

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

My plan basically is to build a healthcare takeover company. publicly funded but not through the government at least in its infancy. This company will do strategic corporate raids. It will be directed by a board of elected experts.

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 29

Taxes will then go up

wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 28

You could point them to the exorbitantly high cost of healthcare in the US and how US tax money pays privately owned medical facilities for public health services. At a certain point, if enough of the market is privately owned Those owners of the infrastructure set the price.

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 28

Correct me if I'm wrong, is there a trend in the UK right now where privately owned medical facilities are increasingly providing care paid for by the NHS?

If that is true, I would ask your government why tax money is being invested in privately held infrastructure rather than the public.

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wakeupwoke.bsky.social @wakeupwoke.bsky.social · Sep 27

I bet there's an interesting history of exploitation in Kerala that spurred the public to act in this way! Are you in the US? We can fix our healthcare system, I have ideas that might be worth gathering around.

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