These evil ghouls are sickening, especially the ones that wrap themselves in the cloak of religion. Healthcare should be 100% free for everyone at the point of service.
I’m 26, so I was just kicked off my parent’s healthcare. I have a ton of medical issues and diagnosed conditions, so losing that healthcare was devastating. I had no coverage at all. I thought I’d die early…until I got Medicaid. I literally just qualified, and just got my card in my mail about a week ago. I feel like I actually have hope now, as it covers everything I need care wise. But my full Medicaid plan doesn’t kick in until December 1st. I’m really scared I’m going to lose my only lifeline if Republicans win…
I'm in Germany where they have full public healthcare. My friend had an allergic reaction a few days ago. She called an ambulance. Five minutes later, two vehicles, two doctors and two paramedics showed up. They did tests, gave her an injection, took her to the hospital. She's fine now. She paid nothing (they pay 160€ a month in healthcare and then never have to pay for any doctor visits, ambulances, hospital stays, surgery etc.)
Ahh the market of healthcare… cuz healthcare is a business and the primary objective of a business is to make money which is diametrically opposed to consumer costs.
If only Americans realized how good they could have it. I have taxpayer funded single payer, also known as VA Healthcare, and it is monumentally better than private insurance.
I sometimes wish I had never discovered this show because the amount of aggravation I now have to internalize in my interactions with conservatives and low information voters tests the limits of my sanity. It really is like living in the movie Idiocracy.
Chief Justice John Roberts is a VERY, VERY conservative justice. However, conservative voters (including one at my job) still despise him for upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act all those years ago. People thought justice Anthony Kennedy was gonna be the deciding factor, but John Roberts ended up siding with the then 4 liberal justices. Conservatives also hate Roberts for a couple other rulings. But make no mistake, John Roberts is no hero. He votes with the conservative bloc on the court the vast majority of the time. He's had a TON of awful votes on the court during his tenure.
Roberts was the CJ on SCOTUS when the Dobbs decision was handed down. It will live along with Dred Scott decision as a stain on the court. In addition he also was CJ when the SCOTUS granted immunity to a POTUS. He is a stain on the very concept of “justice”.
Roberts is a real goon. Only Thomas and Alito are worse. Interestingly, the three appointed by Trump aren’t as bad. At least not yet. They’re still new, and with Roberts being Chief Justice, and with Alito and especially Thomas having “tenure”, so to speak, they’re not the ones in the driver’s seat(s).
During my haircut a few days ago, my hairdresser was talking about she used to be on Medicaid until a few years ago. She surprisingly(at least to me) said she preferred Medicaid to her medical service now. To quote her “I was getting crappy service but for cheap and I was covered for pretty much everything. Now I’m getting less crappy service but for a ton of money and I’m not covered for everything.”
It's true. I wouldn't even say I was getting "crappy" service under Medicaid. It was practically free with very little co-pay and it was taken almost everywhere. Now, I'm uninsured. My partner was paying for insurance and it was costing him a lot out of pocket on top of the monthly bill. He got dropped right before a major surgery and now we're in medical debt. Yay.
a woman argued with me when I said 'healthcare should not be FOR PROFIT' by saying 'everything is for profit', and her 'friend' in europe 'has to wait months for surgery' so perhaps we need more physicians etc and affordable education instead of denying healthcare to millions so WE don't have to WAIT IN LINE!
My insurance didn’t consider the anesthesiologist for my c section covered because they didn’t see my emergency c section as a qualifying medical condition.
I notice he doesn't include the insurance industry when he talks about who will be impacted. If we get rid of the private insurance companies and the companies that assist healthcare providers in dealing with the government and the insurance companies that would cut the cost of healthcare immensely.
It's all of us vs. the ultra-wealthy. I wish more of our grassroots political discourse focused on this obscured reality we all live in. Reds and Blues have more in common than they think. A pitchfork is a pitchfork when the shit hits the fan.
The rich don’t want to POSSIBLY see some of their riches being used to treat sick “poors”. You want to see the contempt the rich in this country have for the rest of us? Look at healthcare and housing.
I need 1 f'ing medicine for my nerve damage disorder & they keep denying me. My doc has written 4 appeals & is working on the 5th. Still can't get it. Vote blue 💙
It's hilarious to hear all these people on Trump's team telling us what " Trump's plans are". He's got an empty head. There's nothing going on up there. He just does what the people around him tells him to do. So you have to look at his circle to understand who's actually going to the be calling the shots.
Yeah, Mike. That’s what we need, to have less regulation on insurance companies and just corporations in general. The market does not regulate itself. Not unless it is a market with perfect competition. These guys need to go a little further than Econ 1a.
Also social security works very well because the bend points that evaluates the historical income that is applied to determine the benefit. The bend points (currently at 1174 and 7078) help in a form of redistribution of wealth which helps avoid extreme poverty in old age.
Under the worst case scenerio, let's hope that democrats can atleast hold onto 49 seats in the U.S. senate. We're gonna lose the West Virginia seat of course, and we're likely to lose the Montana seat. Let's hope Sherrod Brown gets a victory in Ohio. If republicans win the presidency (and let's hope they don't), with only a 51 seat majority, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins would basically own the senate. If republicans get to 52 seats, then a JD Vance could break a tie even without Murkowski or Collins vote. So there would be a big difference between republicans winning 51 seats vs. 52 seats. But let's first hope that Kamala Harris pulls out a victory.
Tester has showed closer in a recent poll and maybe just maybe Allred can upset Cruz. Brown seems to be the right fit for Ohio voters and they seem to like him.
Over 50 million people are at risk of losing their health insurance. Those are also real lives. Not that the majority report cares as much as other things.
They have been trying kill social security, affordable care act, Department of Education - I could go on and on with what they want to do for years and years. Talking points for their base that is very unlikely to happen. I think these type of VLOGS gas light the issue also for views. I listened for a few minutes and now Im out.
This is borderline meaningless for me. I have insurance. Barely means sh@t because of the deductible and what they don't cover. My fiancee still can't afford insurance as a service industry worker and even if she had it it would be the same thing. Unless we are talking single payer for all without the crazy deductibles Obama care is not as big a deal as media says it is. And Holocaust Harris doesn't even have a plan to address any of this anyway.
The deductible is what makes me mad. I pay dental insurance only for them to tell me I have to still pay over $2,000 out of pocket. What was the point of the insurance then?
You don’t care about bans on denying coverage for preexisting conditions, or banning lifetime caps on coverage? If you don’t care now, you will at some point. And that is, by definition, the point of insurance. Maybe think about that for a minute.
Nobody is talking about slashing wages of health care workers, we are talking about getting rid of the middle man that gets between us and our health care worker, all to make obscene profits
My doctor treats me, a Canadian, for free. He gets paid by my single payer government, via the mechanisms + policies associated with the health care legislation federally + provincially. My doctor does not work for free. You want to help doctors? Support single payer healthcare & student debt relief.
