The one who was pandering about healthcare in the campaign and did nothing? At least RepubliKKKans are open about being fascist genocides not just cover it up with an empty speech.
I don't think you'll find many people that don't look at our current healthcare system as a wreck. People are paying $150-$300 a month for a coupon that takes 70% off their next hospital bill of $200,000.
A better message would be that Trump is coming for our Democracy.
But this current message lacks any perspective on our current healthcare system.
It can get a bit murky, based on how people split the age sections. Gen X, for example is frequently split between two age ranges (they’re people between ~45 and 60, and for example the census splits people as 34-65, or others at 55.)
Also keep in mind that boomers tend to lean red where millennials tend to lean blue.
It doesn’t help that boomers are dying off. Cuz you know. that happens.
I’m a software engineer making serious bucks, and my job’s plan is like a fraction of most people. When I worked at a bar, I was paying twice as much in today’s dollars.
You’re going to go bankrupt anyway. Might as well save the cash, open a trust and transfer it in there so debt collectors can’t touch it, then file for chapter 7 bankruptcy. Then just don’t pay the absurd bills.
The idea of health insurance is to not go bankrupt if we get sick. A 5 figure bill is not pleasant, but not insurmountable for us.
So if one of us ends up with medical bills for $800k, we’ll spend something like $30k if treatment straddled two years, and our insurance pays the rest (theoretically).
It sucks ass, but health insurance is pretty much useless at general day to day health coverage that costs in the 3-4 figure range. But absolutely essential for the catastrophic life saving coverage that would wipe us out.
Of course, due to in/out coverage bullshit, and insurance companies fighting claims, there’s always the strong possibility we get wiped out anyway. But that’s another discussion.
OK, the only US candidate to mention Universal Healthcare for all Americans was Marianne Williamson. The rest do not give a shit about the massive healthcare dumpster fire.
Bruh, its not ‘short term memory’ issues when you’re talking about shit from 40 years ago. That’s generations of time. Spoken word oral tradition shit.
Bring up shit that’s happened this century, not shit that happened before the internet was more than just ARPANET or wearing onions on your belt wasn’t the hip new thing.
My brother in Christ, Joe Biden was and still is a tradition Republican who calls himself a Democrat. He is saying what ever needs to get votes. He has shown multiple times that he has no intention of going through with it.
I'm sorry you're in that situation, but this is wrong.
He successfully created subsidies that brought Affordable Care Plan enrollment up and brought the number of uninsured Americans down from 14.5% to 11% through the American Rescue Plan Act, which removed a cap on eligibility for subsidies above 400 percent of the poverty level and limited premiums to 8.5% income among other things.
Every action he's tried to take in the healthcare front has been blocked by others, lawsuits from drug companies, Congress, you name it. States were supposed to take increased funding and expand Medicaid access for people outside the income range for ACA at the same time as the increased subsidies. Many did. Several did not (take a guess which).
He's certainly a flawed president and I wish Democrats ran someone stronger, but this critique is provably false. He has mentioned it and tried to take actions to improve healthcare access.
Of course he could do more, but saying "no mention" is either willfully ignorant or trollish or angered exaggeration. This is on top of the health care improvements he managed to get into the Inflation Reduction Act and proposed healthcare funding in the budget he released in March (which is again supposed to expand Medicaid and Medicare).
which removed a cap on eligibility for subsidies above 400 percent of the poverty level
This is the opposite of what i said. I dont make too much to qualify, i dont make enough to qualify.
States were supposed to take increased funding and expand Medicaid access for people outside the income range for ACA at the same time as the increased subsidies.
Im aware. This happened 14 years ago. He campaigned on closing this gap, he has not mentioned it since elected.
And I'm saying you're wrong and completely ignoring the actions he took to address it. It was mentioned. States were to expand Medicaid in conjunction with his expanding ACA explicitly to handle situations like you brought up.
His proposed budget involves $150 billion earmarked for Medicaid explicitly to expand it to cover people in your situation where the 10 states did not expand coverage as they were supposed to after his American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and Inflation Reduction Act in 2022. This was not 14 years ago. That was 3 and 2 respectively. And the budget is being debated currently.
What health care? My “cheap” state health care that goes up 40 dollars every six months? It started at 30 and now I’m paying over 160 a month for it. Stop fucking around and make this single payer already. There are fuckloads of Americans. We can pay it even without the obscenely rich helping.
See the thing is Democrats, if you are going to paint yourselves in as the heroes, you actually have to go after the things you say you will; not just campaign on them and then disregard them when things become ‘difficult’.
In 2021, Democrats pushed, and in some cases passed, bills to enact sweeping drug price reforms, permanently extend Obamacare subsidies and expand Medicaid in the 12 holdout states that have refused to do so, and pour hundreds of billions into home health care for the elderly and people with disabilities and add dental, vision and hearing benefits to Medicare.
edit: Here’s more stuff negotiated by Democrats recently, if you care. (I suspect you don’t)
Democrats and Biden are losing this election right now. Its because they’ve shown themselves, repeatedly, to be incapable of governing.
It doesn’t matter why they suck at governing. That’s not my problem as a voter. Its their problem.
More broadly, your sycophantic defense of a lost position just makes it further impossible to actually improve on the Democrats as a party.
You’re a cheerleader, and your cheer leading of an obviously failed approach to politics and getting results just makes in more and more clear that the Democrats aren’t a party worth supporting.
The Mr. Pink meme as a response to Teach’s tirade puts it on display just perfectly if you know the reference.
Its not my fucking problem. I’m not voting to get jerked off by Democrats and their apologists in media and online, trying to convince me that up is down when they’ continuously fail, or often as much, fail to even try to get the things they campaign on into policy. I’m not voting for sound-bytes and or to be convinced an L is a W. I’m voting for results and if the Democrats can’t generate them because of how they manage their party, then they aren’t worth voting for. This is the point about the fallacy Teach is making. Teach and yourself subscribe to the fallacy of inevitable in the story of history: “that there could have been none other way”.
Don’t you think its funny that in-spite of basically not having a governing majority in a half decade, Republicans have some how managed to effectively make the will of their voters into the law of the land? If the Democrats can’t functionally resist Republican policy, then I have to do something else with the limited power I have, because the future is too important to be left in the hands of a party incapable of wielding power. Somehow, from a minority position, Republicans are able to govern. You should be curious as to why that is.
So far from the new Democratic alignment in the house we’ve gotten 26 billion for Israels genocide, a redefining of protest as antisemitism, and it looks like the Democrats ARE going to push for a draconian border bill that would give Tucker Carlson a nighttime emission if he dreamed it up himself.
If you are only against fascism when it comes from Republicans, are you really against fascism? If you are only against racist border policies when its a R in office, are you really against racist border policies?
You do understand that you can cast your vote without being in complete agreement with a party, right?
I’m voting dem because the other party is vehemently anti-women, anti-trans, anti-rights, and arguably fascist down to the very definition (not just a “hunch” like you seem to think dems are). I’m not voting R or third party because that would be agreeing to the death sentence of democracy outright.
And if I’m a “cheerleader”, that makes you one as well, lol.
Who am I cheerleading? I’m politically homeless in this country. I have the option between fascists who want to leave the future of humanity to Christian nationalism, and a party of incompetent,completely delusional neoliberal and neocons, with a very small progressive minority, whom the party will happily fund Republicans to run against.
A good metaphor for the current political situation is the current political situation in Ukraine. The world has had a weak, mealy mouthed response to supporting Ukraine, because as Zelinksky has said, they don’t really want Russia to lose. They’re too scared of the uncertainty that might leave them with.
It’s the same with Democrats. They don’t really want to destroy or eliminate the Republican party, because at their core they have the same policy goals. And the good cop/ bad cop schtick works on voters whose brains are contaminated by a naivety baked into them from too many Disney and Marvel movies.
It’s not Republicans ratfucking progressives in this country: it’s the DCCC and Democrats. Democrats are going to go along with all the worst ideas of the Republican party they don’t feel like they need to come over and get your vote by supporting the policies that you are projecting onto them as being in support of.
Oh both sides are NOT the same. Republicans actually fight tooth and nail to get the policies of their voters into place. Its a bummer that the policies their voters want are horrible and anti-human, but as politicians, they do their jobs.
Democrats don’t fight for the policies their voters want, and aren’t willing to do what it takes to overcome the forces that oppose them. At this point, its the Democrats in the house basically pursing the Republican agenda for them. Fuck that, fuck them, and fuck you if you support that.
You are losing this election for us dude. And its because of your rhetoric, which is basically a clone of DNC/ DCCC/ mainstream media talking points. You (along with the Democrats) are completely failing to grow the party base in any meaningful way, and have basically abandoned the left at this point. The left is who has put you into power every time, and every time, you’ve slapped them in the face for it. The kids aren’t having it and neither am I.
You and the Democrats can either do better, or you can fail.
I’m… Losing you the election? Lmao what? Did you not read my comment above that says I’m voting against the anti-women, anti-trans rhetoric of the right? I’m sorry but it’s a life or death situation for me. I’m not going to vote for my own hanging, thank you very much.
I don’t think you’re getting it through your thick skull that while I don’t necessarily like dems fully, they’re the only realistic option. The election has two realistic outcomes: Trump wins, and I face grave danger, or Biden wins, and I at least get the chance to see another presidential election in 4 years. And if you can’t see that or agree with that, fuck you right back.
Biden can’t win if he doesn’t move to the left, at least on Israel. And he’s not going to.
And just ‘by the numbers’, as of current polling, Biden can’t win.
If Biden can’t win, and you can’t think of a different approach to the situation other than continuing to support a failed party and a failed candidate, that’s on you. You should probably focus your efforts on developing an effective emigration strategy.
What’s your excuse for California with a bullet proof dem super majority who strikes down single payer every time it comes up? They are all owned by the same corporations
If a state with a bullet proof democrat super majority can’t fix things like healthcare, wages, housing, etc democrats on the federal level couldn’t do it either. They would find, like California does, a rotating villain to blame for not being able to govern.
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