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.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    A stepping stone towards what? I remember. Universal healthcare. By forcing everyone to buy private health care plans. death-to-the-poor

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Don't worry, the current Democratic presidential campaign is continuing its strides toward universal healthcare by...
      *drumroll*
      ...dropping it from their campaign platform.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Lol, did they? Must've gotten overshadowed for me by them dropping opposition to the death penalty. Fuck em.

        • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Here's what it says on her campaign website (ctrl+f "universal" = "no results found"):

          pablum

          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.

          • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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            2 months ago

            pablum

            AI could write this shit. In fact - maybe it does.

            • took on
            • fought
            • expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act
            • build on
            • the power to go toe to toe
            • accelerate the negotiations
            • called on

            My favorite is "expanding and strengthening Obamacare" which has been meanless lib filler for years.