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Reporter should ask those seven morons who broke ranks and voted for this.
When Obama was elected people couldn’t afford to buy their own healthcare because the insurance companies managed to grab everyone by the balls the late 90s
After years of political efforts the Affordable Care Act was so watered down by the Republicans that everyone, especially Obama, said it’s severely flawed, but it did create a legal framework and first step toward getting control over insurance companies…
It’d be nice if we’d take the next step instead of stepping backwards
He says he wants to give the money to the people, so does that mean he would be lowering the tax rate on the lowest bracket (10%) to offset the costs of the healthcare premiums… Or is it just words without any legislation as we all know it is.
But those brackets don’t pay taxes, or even if they do it’s a tiny fraction of the cost of healthcare in the US. A single ambulance ride can be thousands of dollars, which is nearing a months income at minimum wage. Are they going to flip tax rates negative and essentially create a guaranteed income for everyone just so we can afford entry level healthcare? The math doesn’t work and gullible idiots support this shit.
They absolutely pay taxes. You’re just viewing taxes from a point of view that you were groomed into thinking is fair, federal governments shouldn’t only tax income(or really income at all), they should tax wealth. The ambulance rides costing thousands is a product of how our system is set up as well, it shouldn’t cost anything for what we pay in taxes overall. As a country we pay more in taxes for healthcare than any other country, and don’t get anything out of it because everyone who thinks the current system is working well is being grifted and stolen from the whole way up and down and running with blinders on.
A white woman is 3x more likely to die during a pregnancy, a black woman 6x when compared to Canada or the UK. Those numbers go up even more compared to counties with good healthcare systems. The U.S. is around 45th in the world at keeping babies alive till the age of 1, and also to the age of 5. It isn’t good healthcare. Yet we are paying shit loads more for it.
“The math doesn’t work out, yet gulible idiots support this shit”
I’m not entirely sure your line of argument here, though I feel we are likely in the same ballpark of positions. I’ve read on the rates of infant and mother mortality in the US vs developed nations in the past and it’s astounding just how horrifically we’re serving some of the most vulnerable people in our society while also charging the equivalent of a decades savings for many families just to birth a child, not event to raise it.
- I feel a wealth tax should be in place and notably large, add in a much bigger inheritance tax too.
- we should be using more kinds of taxes to drive growth like Land Value Taxes instead of regressive sales taxes at a bare minimum to shift from punishing those who have to spend every penny to those who hoard land in our cities as an investment.
- the US healthcare system is working as designed: to extract the maximum wealth possible from the poor through any means necessary.
- the rates of success in health, education, rights, equity, social mobility, and democratic representation in the US are abysmal on every metric.
- the people should be a whole hell of a lot madder about these things than they are.
Give me some Ranked Choice Voting, Democratic Socialism, and a parliamentary system with many many more representatives to boot.
