It's also a bit weird that this is politically relevant in the US. I honestly don't understand how my need for healthcare is a political stance.
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Because money.
Not that hard to understand.
Ok, but the military costs money but isn't political.
Trump keeps making it political and also wants to massively cut taxes on the group of people who contribute the most in taxes that pay for the military - millionaires, billionaires, and major corporations. While also slashing healthcare for millions.
Just like he did last time.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So you're saying both parties agree on the massive military spending and it's not political?
No. Not at all.
Passes to massive bipartisan support each time and your only source is shit trump said.
You criticize popular legislation that actually accomplishes what you demand, then whine about what your candidate says—
Are you feeling ok? Lol
But you see, it’s not a political stance because no one who even has a chance to win even remotely feels the need to offer that to their voters.
I work in healthcare and I’m all for socialized medicine or Medicare for all. The corporate hospitals do not act in the best interests of the patients. Some of them (like HCA) are inherently evil. They cut staffing, resources, and supplies to the bone, constantly running on the thinnest of margins leading to dangerously unsafe conditions for patients. Not to mention doctors, providers, nurses, and other healthcare workers are getting completely burned out. This is so they can please the shareholders and the executives can get their fat bonuses. Americans pay so much for healthcare and get so little in return.
It's fucked up there's no option to vote for who actually wants to fix it.
Kamala was headed in the right direction 5 years ago, but now I dont even know if she admits the current system am is flawed now.
It's sad that the best response to Trump's bizarre accusation of "she wants to give everyone health care" would be "fuck yeah I do!" but she for some reason thinks it will scare off swing voters and leans into the classic Dem instinct of tucking to the center.
would be “fuck yeah I do!”
I'm not a huge fan of Pete, but at least he's smart enough to have learned that lesson from Bernie.
He goes on Faux all the time these days and when they call him a communist, he explains what the policy actually means.
The vast majority of our country want healthcare improved. And I stead of capitalizing on it, were letting trump be the only one who talks about fixing it. Knowing that half the voters are dumb enough to believe him
I don't want to link the same clip over and over but Bernie getting the whole Fox News Town Hall crowd to agree with him should have been the eye opener for the whole fucking party, not just mayor Pete.
There’$ a very good rea$on that that clip i$ completely buried by corporate media.
I’ll let you gue$$ what that rea$on i$.
I've never seen this - but I'd love to!
Because everyone believes the lie that socialized healthcare would be terrible because the corporate media is complicit in spreading it since forever. And they always will be, since the same people who owned the corporate media are also heavily invested in corporate healthcare.
At least Harris is still kinda trending in the right direction, even if moving in smaller steps, https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4832005-kamala-harris-level-up-biden-admin-health-care-programs/
Compared with the other side that wants to drop protections for preexisting conditions.
there’s no option to vote for who actually wants to fix it.
This makes me jealous of the folks who get to vote for Sanders and AOC back into Congress again.
Kamala was headed in the right direction 5 years ago, but now I dont even know if she admits the current system is flawed now.
The best I can hope for here is that, since in the past she was for fixing it, that once the election is past then she'll "show her true colors" and get around to it again.
Anyone planning on moving to Canada?
Canada posting higher on this report than the US, meanwhile the US constantly talks down on the quality of care in Canada, and conservatives use the Canada-US comparison to try and sell Canadians on privatized health care.
Don't worry US, at this rate you won't be in last place for much longer.
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