An entire industry built on taking money they didn’t earn to deny the care our doctors prescribe for us… Are we stupid??
I mean, the electorate keeps voting for people who won’t pass health care reform so… Yes?
Those people are the only options on the ballot though. We can’t vote for something that’s not an option
The fuck are you talking about? First of all, primaries exist. Secondly, with only a few notable exceptions, Democrats favor single-payer. The original ACA was a government healthcare bill with a private option but Joe Lieberman was the holdout and gutted it. Stating otherwise is intellectually dishonest and deliberately ignorant, or at worst a malicious rewrite of history.
It’s not stupidity, because over 99% of us didn’t have a choice. It’s greed. Greedy little piggy leaders of major systems designed to fuck over everyone but them.
My default response to this is what was voter turnout for the last election? People are fond of referring to the 4 boxes: soap, ballot, jury, and cartridge, but they don’t bother with the second.
I’ve literally never heard a single person refer to these 4 boxes, so I must take issue with your assertion that people are fond of doing it. You’re also seemingly discounting innumerable factors, like the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on distracting and deceiving people into both voting against their best interests, and not voting at all.
In short, your default response is a reductive and unhelpful platitude. Not trying to be a jerk (it just comes naturally). Best of luck.
Good. Burn it all down and replace it with universal healthcare.
Like every other modern country! They all get better care for less money!!!
Then they’re a monopoly, so we’ll split them back up in 20 years. And let this cycle continue again.
Awfully optimistic of you to expect that it’ll be replaced by anything better.
If I don’t have even a shred of optimism my mental health would be x10 worse. I need it, swiper no swiping. 🙃
I have mixed feelings. On one hand I can absolutely see m4a being awesome if implemented in the laziest way and I can see Trump winding up doing that purely for popularity (highly unlikely but not impossible). But I imagine it’s more likely to be like tricare and i imagine it would explicitly exclude politicized Healthcare like abortion, birth control, and gender affirming care.
I like your optimism but trump will hug Eric and tell him he loves him and that he’s the bestest boy ever before he implements universal health care
I’m not entirely sure why the stocks are falling. Does anybody think they’re going to tidy up their profit margins? They’re going to walk around in armored limousines with security details. And the new administration is going to make absolutely certain they can still bulldoze their way through.
One of them already walked back a “we will limit the amount of anaethestic you’re allowed in surgical procedures” they’d announced.
The market sees that the CEOs fear for their lives and want to make it sound like they care rather than deny care, so profits will fall, because paying for healthcare is a lot more expensive than paying a call centre worker to say no.
Hence the industry as a whole is less profitable, because, you know, what with death being so unpopular suddenly these days amongst healthcare CEOs.
Portip: short stock. Pump bullets into CEOs. Profit from dump.
That sounds like a great next bestseller from AKPress, shelved between “how to blow up a pipeline” and “living my life”
For once, we have a good news.
