Every establishment dem leader (not AOC obviously) is obsessed with the idea of taking people at their word even when it is beyond obvious these people are acting in bad faith… this results in answering insane questions as if they are sane. It’s NUTS.
Yes, good, but speaking as a VERY SATISFIED Medicare Advantage patient for over a decade, she really doesn't know what she's talking about on that one issue.
No, she's right. There is a lot of fraud there, though. It's mostly insurer-side: it doesn't necessarily harm patients (I have friends who love their Advantage plans), but that doesn't mean the plans aren't overcharging the government.
He asked because AOC has been painted as a radical leftist who wants to take a hatchet to the government since she took office. So Inskeep's assumption is: "You want to destroy things, you just don't like who is doing it."
Nevermind that "radical leftists" just want a working social safety net.
And a feckless, normalizing question from Inskeep. This is the man who, when I impatiently pointed out the dangers of Trump-Russia assaults on the media, promptly blocked me.
I read it as an acknowledgement of what a lot of right wing people who listen to propaganda think about the "squad" - that they're terrorists who want to destroy things. This question fits into that framing of what kind of rep AOC is.
I didn't listen to the whole thing, so I take you at your word that other questions sucked. But this question reads to me like "Tell me what's wrong with DOGE" -- and that's a layup for her.
No, it's "wouldn't it be a good idea for a president to go break stuff randomly, even if maybe different stuff from DOGE?" And the answer to that is, fuck no. It's both entirely illegal and very very stupid.
Move fast and break things is supposed to help when you’re dealing with a competitor in a space and you haven’t been innovative enough.
It’s “fine” if the stakes aren’t that high, it’s not fine when people’s lives are at risk, and there is no competitive space for these agencies. It’s just evil.
Really good point too. These moves are business "sense," and hostile takeover type crap, and "remove the competition."
But uh. Who's the competition?
Well apparently, every single poor and working class American at the very least, and maybe the middle class too...
Such a scam. I took over the care of my elderly grandfather after my mom unexpectedly passed and found out real quick that Medicare advantage is a scam. They didn't want to pay for anything. Getting basic care for a 96 year old man was ridiculously difficult.
AOC is extremely good at this and infinitely more thoughtful than her critics give her credit for. she’s a way more impressive policy thinker than the Serious Adults in the Problem Solvers Caucus
there's nothing inherently bad about Medicare advantage being privately administered. people spend food stamps at private grocery stores. there's no reason whatsoever that the government should administer something just because it pays for it.
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Nevermind that "radical leftists" just want a working social safety net.
It’s “fine” if the stakes aren’t that high, it’s not fine when people’s lives are at risk, and there is no competitive space for these agencies. It’s just evil.
But uh. Who's the competition?
Well apparently, every single poor and working class American at the very least, and maybe the middle class too...
AOC is dog-whistling but for good policy
What happens is the cancer stops shrinking and starts growing with the additional danger of metastasizing/spreading and the person dying.
The fact that they don't care is beyond words.
You will see it during the Felon's state of the union party. They will be sitting there looking dumb
Another unforced error for senile Democrats who continue to be stuck 25 years in the past with their political and communication strategy