How dare you cite your actual personal experience to me. Repent and accept Obamacare into your heart, or face a barrage of lecturing/accusations of being a Russian bot.
A stepping stone towards what? I remember. Universal healthcare. By forcing everyone to buy private health care plans.
Don’t worry, the current Democratic presidential campaign is continuing its strides toward universal healthcare by…
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…dropping it from their campaign platform.
Lol, did they? Must’ve gotten overshadowed for me by them dropping opposition to the death penalty. Fuck em.
Here’s what it says on her campaign website (ctrl+f “universal” = “no results found”):
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As Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris took on insurance companies and Big Pharma and got them to lower prices. As a Senator, she fought Donald Trump’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Vice President Harris will make affordable health care a right, not a privilege by expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act and making permanent the Biden-Harris tax credit enhancements that are lowering health care premiums by an average of about $800 a year for millions of Americans. She’ll build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s successes in bringing down the cost of lifesaving prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries by extending the $35 cap on insulin and $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket spending for seniors to all Americans. Her tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act gave Medicare the power to go toe to toe with Big Pharma and negotiate lower drug prices. As President, she’ll accelerate the negotiations to cover more drugs and lower prices for Americans. As Vice President, she also announced that medical debt will be removed from credit reports, and helped cancel $7 billion of medical debt for 3 million Americans. As President, she’ll work with states to cancel medical debt for even more Americans.
And Vice President Harris has led the Administration’s efforts to combat maternal mortality. Women nationwide are dying from childbirth at higher rates than in any other developed nation. The Vice President called on states to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from two months to twelve: today, 46 states do so — up from just three near the Administration’s start.
“It was supposed to be the beginning, something to build up on.”
Neat! Biden’s been president for four years. What’s he built upon it?
It was supposed to be something to build on?
Okay so build on it then? It’s been like 10 years hurry up
“It’s 2008 and the latest marquee piece of Democratic legislation is flawed and stuffed with handouts to a useless and predatory industry, but it will be a stepping stone to something greater.”
“It’s 2021 and the latest marquee piece of Democratic legislation is flawed and stuffed with handouts to a useless and predatory industry, but it will be a stepping stone to something greater.”
“It’s 2028 and the latest marquee piece of Democratic legislation…”
Obamacare was literally a Republican idea, and how uniquely American: threatening everyone with the threat of the law to buy luxury goods they can’t afford.
How is this the hill they’re going to die on? Just join us and commiserate the fact that this country is way too pig-headed to even see universal healthcare on a state level.
I have called it Romneycare for years; fuck this advertising-ass country trying to repackage its shit to feed the peons. It’s like how the “bald eagle screech” they always use is just a dubbed-in red-tail hawk. bald eagles squawk like gulls. the US is truly the empire of lies, just with a high-paid marketing department. but that only goes so far.
