16 points

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.

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She was headed ‘in the right direction’ to get elected.

She lied to get the job in the same way democrats were upset Kavanah, Gorsuch, and Coney Barrett did

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Politicians wouldn’t just go and lie.

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Found the politician!

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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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I know US healthcare is in dire need of improvement, but I do have to find the choice of just 9 other cherry-picked countries to be an odd comparison. If this was rephrased as “US is #10 in healthcare globally”, I still wouldn’t buy that, but that’s essentially what this article seems to imply and doesn’t sound quite as negative as it should.

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but I do have to find the choice of 9 other cherry-picked countries to be an odd comparison.

Just to be clear, the “cherry-picked” countries you think are an “odd comparison” are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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I didn’t mean it in a dismissive way, but there’s a lot more countries than the Northwest Europe Privilege Corridor + their successful colonies. I just think there’s more to compare with that won’t leave the picture feeling so incomplete and Eurocentric.

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Which countries do you want it compared to? To me the selected make a lot of sense, all comparably rich and developed countries, where else would you find them. If you compare to poor underdeveloped countries, why compare at all. Be aware that from a euro perspective, not all of the selected are considered the cream of the crop, some are just plain mediocre, but that of course depends on the survey.

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Might’ve been trying to make the point that adding a handful of other countries probably would’ve left us at the bottom again. Denmark, Spain, Belgium, South Korea, and Japan probably have us beat as well.

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It’s just a pretty typical comparison with rich, highly developed Western democracies. Considering the US has the highest GDP in the world, and also the country that spends the most on healthcare per capita, coming last is damning.

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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.

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Ok, but the military costs money but isn’t political.

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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)_/¯

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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.

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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.

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