Exactly. And don't tell me we can't have Universal Healthcare when we can pay millions so Comrade Krasnov aka Trump the Russian Asset can have a Military Parade for his ego!
The US can also apparently afford to give Israel their own healthcare and education with our tax dollars while we fucking suffer and have one of the lowest education rates and healthcare in the world.
Exactly! Born in the USA I've lived and worked in Canada, the UK & Australia. Traveled to Scandinavian nations, and other countries. The US has the most cruel & unfair health care system in the world.
It’s disgusting how much our politicians care more about a terrorist state that WE fund completely with our tax dollars instead of their own constituents. AIPAC completely controls the majority of the politicians in America 😡
The argument of wanting to reduce the deficit while increasing the defense budget this much should tell more people that it was never actually about reducing spending.
I'm all for a balanced budget. But going after the nickels and dimes they've gone after so far will never get you there.
And Trump wants to hand the reins to Hegseth, a drunk, a rapist and an embezzler who robbed the non-profits he ran.
Hegseth is covered in tattoos...why doesn't Homan send him to El Salvador? You can bet Trump is getting a good slice of that money.
while medicare audits have revealed they have made large amounts of over payments ($100M+)….our very own rick scott here in fl was fined $1.7B for medicare fraud as a healthcare ceo.
what they never say is the majority of medicare fraud is usually through providers not the beneficiaries…
Yeah, according to Claude - Kaiser, MedPAC, CBO, Commonwealth Fund agree the system itself for processing payments are fundamental flawed re: design in how care is delivered and paid for. Most gov programs could be improved with thoughtful and consistent revamping, but instead we get DOGE 🙃
It's not about if it's possible, it's about waiting for elected officials to do something about it. Waiting for them to act is over, we need to let them know they don't have a choice.
The important thing here is that the Federal Reserve does not dip its hand into a pot of “tax dollars” to pay military contractors, nor is it required to check some mythical account where tax dollars live before it wires the money. #MMT #Taxes #StephanieKelton https://newrepublic.com/article/158221/government-can-afford-anythi-wants
In fact, that account doesn’t exist. As former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke once noted, when the government pays for things, it is “not taxpayer money. We simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account.” #Capitalism
so the boys can have their toys that day-drunk petey can have his little war games. Wonder how many lives this is going to cost, so he's a mean sumbitch.
Fits right in with “we need to stop wasteful spending and fraud by shutting down gov’t services and agencies, BUT we also need to raise the budget ceiling.”
Healthcare resources are already fully mobilized, so if the government foots the bill for all of it there'll be no inflation, no splurging, no shortage of resources that isn't already short. All it will change is the priority by which we are already rationing healthcare, from incomes to outcomes.
Don’t tell me we can’t have universal healthcare when the US can loose Trillions in the markets, while Congress does nothing to stop their self harm. #Shame
To have produced a balanced budget, based on the Congressional Budget Office’s numbers, we would have needed a total tax revenue of approximately $6.8t. That is a modest 22.7% of the 2024 GDP. Merely rounding up to 23% would have yielded an additional $690b to fund healthcare. Yet here we are.
No we have the ability to house, feed and cloth everyone. We have the capital to pay everyone a comfortable wage. The contradictions of capitalism are the reason we don’t have these things
Whenever a doctors office tells me 4 months is their earliest available appointment or I stand in a long line for an Rx I hear the voices of the people parroting “but but in Canada they have to like wait for a long time”
There are serious issues with Canada’s health care system but a lot of them stem from the efforts of Conservative provincial governments (health is a provincial portfolio) to undermine the public system and replace it with private. Personally I have no issues bc of where I live.
Privatizing is always where is goes wrong. Here (US) it’s just wild. It’s like the companies get all the $ benefits of private corporations but aren’t beholden to consumer protection laws. They don’t have to post prices or make any guarantees.
That’s nuts. Here the system works well for the sickest people (and for people who happen to live where a lot of health care workers also want to live).
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"Medical bankruptcy", is a shocking phenomenon that exists only in America.
It has nothing to with "communism".
Healthcare is a human right.
Removing the treasonous facist pos + his regime from the WH asap
After we can fight for better Healthcare. During there isn't a prayers chance in hell for any Healthcare
What's sauce for the goose...
The 90 day period before #FelonRapistTraitorReump can invoke the #InsurrectionAct expires on #April20th (click hashtags for more info).
I'm all for a balanced budget. But going after the nickels and dimes they've gone after so far will never get you there.
Hegseth is covered in tattoos...why doesn't Homan send him to El Salvador? You can bet Trump is getting a good slice of that money.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coffee_Cup
what they never say is the majority of medicare fraud is usually through providers not the beneficiaries…
(Gaza, razed to the ground)
Fits right in with “we need to stop wasteful spending and fraud by shutting down gov’t services and agencies, BUT we also need to raise the budget ceiling.”
It’s a grift, and we’re getting screwed.
Best to you. 💙
They won’t because they’re greedy and want to bomb Iran.