‘Don’t get sick. It’s too expensive’: medical debt is putting more Americans in financial crisis - eviltoast
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    11 months ago

    And the Democrats still just talk about getting people affordable “coverage” and not affordable “care.”

    The charitable interpretation is that they’re talking about getting the government to pay for healthcare and they don’t want to make it sound like medical professionals would all become government employees.

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        11 months ago

        Because that would be a lot less popular. A lot of Americans are terrified of the scenario because they’re afraid of change in general, and they’re afraid the result would be run even worse than the system we have now, because they think governments are inherently less competent than private companies.

        I’m not talking about brainwashed Republicans; I mean centrist Dems whose support is absolutely vital for a Dem politician in almost any congressional district.

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          11 months ago

          You mean blue Republicans who get paid to perpetuate this bullshit. They aren’t Democrats; they’re fascist spies.

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              11 months ago

              Tell them thanks for keeping progress at bay and letting all the fascists have more free speech rights than the rest of us.