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But repubs are scared someone might get something they don't deserve.

gandydancer1961.bsky.social•63 days ago

I've had people tell me that they don't want their tax dollars going to pay for health care for a "deadbeat." They firmly believe that some people are less valuable than others. This is the state we're in.

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leekayfabe.bsky.social•63 days ago

A huge problem in the US is, conservatives would rather go without necessities, than have someone they deem as undeserving get anything for free.

"This program feeds 100 children every morning."

"Yeah, but 5 of those kids get it because their parents spend money on drugs. We have to end it, now!!

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gandydancer1961.bsky.social•63 days ago

Oh yeah, I have seen that. The party of all lives matters, and pro life don't give a crap about anyone in reality. It's nothing more than a soundbite for them.

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seasthemoment.bsky.social•63 days ago

Half of MAGA are the deadbeats

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spacemonkeygleek.bsky.social•62 days ago

I’d argue it’s closer to 70-80%

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teresalfenton.bsky.social•62 days ago

If only the billionaires who own healthcare companies would take a backseat on this subject.

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reasonmustwin.bsky.social•63 days ago

If we want a more efficient economy, get rid of insurance companies and make healthcare available to all citizens. Insurance companies add NO value to the economy, in fact, it adds as a drag on productivity by keeping people sick and denying medical support.

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gotschooledcg.bsky.social•63 days ago

At what cost? Big pharma execs needs more super yachts for their dogs. We cant have both.

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wahoonie.bsky.social•63 days ago

Anybody thought of the CEOs ?
548 Billion less for those poor things. 😫

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ephystuff.bsky.social•62 days ago

Pretty sure the whole 'pro-life' thing ends at birth.

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falkirkbairnexiled.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yes, but that would mean the rich wouldn't be getting exponentially richer, so...

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drseid.bsky.social•62 days ago

But think of all those CEOs who would be denied their rightful multi-million salaries.
What about them?
(They'd probably be good with Grey Paupon)

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ed-kwok.bsky.social•63 days ago

Money is the true God for many in this country

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dglancaster.bsky.social•63 days ago

Won't somebody think of those poor CEOs?

I'm not 100% positive, but I don't recall any health insurance millionaires in Canada.

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irreverentginger.bsky.social•63 days ago

Unfortunately, the GOP don’t care about saving lives and want the 💰💰💰 in their own pockets. There in lies the rub. 🫤

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lordye.bsky.social•63 days ago

But Medicare isnt a tariff is it! Trumpy likes tariffs to save the world

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voidows.bsky.social•63 days ago

yes 186 a day! 7.7 a hour!
but tik tik tik, since it happened nothing is done to stop this? Or is it?

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daroob.bsky.social•63 days ago

Makes sense once you figure out they’re trying to off as many of us as possible

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palsternacka.bsky.social•63 days ago

That appears to be the reason for their reluctance to consider scientific evidence.

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firewoman79.bsky.social•62 days ago

It’s like no one reads books anymore

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jerseyjohn1.bsky.social•63 days ago

And the wingers continue to scream SOCIALISM

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fatesrival.bsky.social•63 days ago

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1uniquaphiliaism.bsky.social•63 days ago

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shelbylady.bsky.social•63 days ago

I don’t understand why this can’t be done!

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uglyoldf4rt.bsky.social•63 days ago

Capitalism.

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vegemouse.bsky.social•62 days ago

The democrats and republicans don’t want it done.

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miri100.bsky.social•63 days ago

They are not interested in saving lives. They are only interested in increasing their wealth however they can do it.

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liveonmbc.bsky.social•62 days ago

Bernie Sanders has been preaching about this for decades.

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sentientbunnysuit.bsky.social•57 days ago

The ACA was supposed to save $200 Billion a year. Instead it increased healthcare costs in the US by $1 Trillion dollars while only increasing the number of insured Americans by 6.5%.

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politicalamericans.bsky.social•39 days ago

https://politicalamericans.com/rfk-announces-bird-flu-bitcoin/

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moondance03.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reposted

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chloeisacat.bsky.social•62 days ago

A "managed care" industry with greed at its core has our elected officials in the pocket and under their control. Elected leaders of BOTH major parties lock arms on this and prevent the will of the people.

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anniegraham.bsky.social•62 days ago

Truth is that American insurance companies are middlemen skimming money from funds meant to finance actual healthcare. The more care they can block or delay, the more money they can pocket for investors. Healthcare should not be for profit for non providers.

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whytetara.bsky.social•63 days ago

Predictions for 2025
Heyoka Maximus Award
Goes To

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catlady3175.bsky.social•62 days ago

That is the problem. It would save money and not continue to make money

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albertanontheloose.bsky.social•63 days ago

Won’t somebody please think about the corporations??
Haha

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pfaye369.bsky.social•63 days ago

Wow, That's like 1 Elon!

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tftf72.bsky.social•63 days ago

Same as 2,374,287 regular people

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wltran.bsky.social•62 days ago

Don’t you get it. It is not about health or care. It is just another way to create a ruling class.

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edoolittle.bsky.social•62 days ago

Sounds pro-life.

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debinthegarden.bsky.social•62 days ago

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thepsyoflife.bsky.social•63 days ago

That's assuming the average voter in the US (a) BELIEVES the outcomes of YaLe StUdIeS, (b) cares about saving 68,000 lives, or (c) wants to save 400 billion dollars.

The pertinent question in American politics seems to be, will it hurt the people I hate worst and first, not saving lives or money.

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vegemouse.bsky.social•62 days ago

Most people in the US are for it. Even a lot of Republicans. This is between the rich and the poor, not the left and the right. Dems in charge don’t want M4A just as much as Republicans don’t want it.

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thepsyoflife.bsky.social•62 days ago

Most people in the US are for it, but they just don't vote for people who will enact it. It's like that for a lot of the divisive social issues. Strange, isn't it?

https://wp.me/p7vabV-dEG

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vegemouse.bsky.social•62 days ago

They don’t vote for people who will enact it because nobody in either major political party wants to enact it. Show me a candidate who ran on universal healthcare that the Dems didn’t fundamentally screw over.

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thepsyoflife.bsky.social•62 days ago

The question becomes, why isn't universal healthcare an organizing position for a political party? If it has such widespread support, why aren't people voting for it? If no one in the Democratic Party is running on it, why isn't there another party? Why aren't there independents?

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vegemouse.bsky.social•62 days ago

There are third parties, and two of them ran on universal healthcare during this election cycle. The democrats consistently try to kick them off ballots, and attack anyone who votes or supports third party as Trump supporters because “they’re taking votes away from democrats”.

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jcgoris.bsky.social•63 days ago

Add to that an additional 212,000 lives and 105 Billion USD that would have been saved during the 2020 pandemic as well, from the same study

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mark-resists.bsky.social•62 days ago

#TrumpVirus

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jd29991.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yeah. But the magats be sloooow thinkas

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kinoptika.bsky.social•63 days ago

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garwoodmurray.bsky.social•63 days ago

Hah! And the dems?

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kinoptika.bsky.social•63 days ago

🤫🤫🤫

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baminmacanal.bsky.social•63 days ago

We need more regulations, this is crazy 😧

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lukeskyjumper.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yup. Almost as positive an impact as UBI.

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victorialove.bsky.social•61 days ago

A few years ago….

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curraghchase.bsky.social•62 days ago

Silly Rabbit, These are well reasoned studies and facts. This isn’t written for MAGAlings. You need Kid Rock in a monster truck to sell this idea.

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ltahab.bsky.social•63 days ago

The insurance companies will literally kill politicians before they allow Medicare for all to be a thing.

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gdfreeman.bsky.social•63 days ago

…and gut profits for the funeral industry.
Saving lives? What a terrible business model.

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johhnycanuck.bsky.social•62 days ago

Move to Canada. I’ve had Medicare all my life, even though I’ve been retired for 10 years.

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victorialove.bsky.social•61 days ago

Used to live in Kingston, ON, and loved it. We are both retired now, and can’t afford to move back, sadly.

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johhnycanuck.bsky.social•60 days ago

Yes and Kingston has winter, but Nanaimo just has rain and more rain. Snow is becoming less likely every year.

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johhnycanuck.bsky.social•61 days ago

One of the reasons why we love living here is that no matter how conservative the federal party in power may be, it’s still left of anything that is liberal in the United States.

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erawan2567.bsky.social•63 days ago

Universal Healthcare is only bad for insurance companies, and stock portfolios.

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kinoptika.bsky.social•63 days ago

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pryor369.bsky.social•63 days ago

Good luck getting the wealthy to care

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tlee1942.bsky.social•63 days ago

I retired in mid-July and support this message!

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terry-157.bsky.social•62 days ago

And how many lives will Musk-Trump save?

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kurtmcd.bsky.social•63 days ago

So, I'm just asking, but who here will be asking for this from their congressional rep.? Good time to push universal health care legislation all the way, right after everyone witnesses the upcoming Maga circus.

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thebigpappa.bsky.social•63 days ago

Republicans don't care because the $ 458 billion is lining their pockets, and 68,000 lives means nothing to them.

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femsocphd.bsky.social•63 days ago

#universalhealthcare

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flower4power.bsky.social•57 days ago

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jjmaran.bsky.social•63 days ago

The ppl who need to aren’t and the ppl who don’t do.

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vegemouse.bsky.social•62 days ago

Yes, if only either political party was for it, but they’re both bought out by the health insurance industry.

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wltran.bsky.social•62 days ago

The Clintons were for it, and were totally demonized til this day. Obama gave us the best he can do. There is a large chunk of people that will go without themselves just to see others suffer.

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vegemouse.bsky.social•62 days ago

The Clinton’s were absolutely NOT for Medicare for all. They fought tooth and nail against the only candidates that wanted it to happen. Many of the “cosponsors” of the bill never brought it up.

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vegemouse.bsky.social•62 days ago

Dems has control of the house and senate and still refused to even bring it up. Obama gave us a further ingrained insurance industry within our healthcare system. Biden brought up a single payer option while campaigning to bring on Sanders voters and never mentioned it after he won. They don’t care.

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rump14.bsky.social•63 days ago

This is too much common sense!

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drthurber.bsky.social•63 days ago

Thank you for the post.

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jerasikehorn.bsky.social•63 days ago

👍

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philbyjustaguy.bsky.social•63 days ago

But it might cost the rich money!

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procrastin.bsky.social•63 days ago

The level of ignorance about fringe benefits is astounding. Private insurance costs to employers (in effect a cost to the employee) are far higher than the tax increases that would pay for M4A.

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ethnierocks.bsky.social•63 days ago

I’ve stated previously that the USA despite its cries is not considered a true democracy as it DOES NOT give its people free health care (like Europe) & still executes its people.
Sorry you might hate me for saying it but it’s true so it doesn’t surprise me about Medicare

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garlicneo.bsky.social•63 days ago

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thegodofcities.bsky.social•62 days ago

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doctorjimmy.bsky.social•63 days ago

#Luigi saw things clearly. Perhaps too clearly.

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seasthemoment.bsky.social•63 days ago

Since we now pay premiums for medicare of $770, how is this not supple ‘mental’?
U pay based on what what made when you were working, not on your SSI?

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joanofbarks.bsky.social•17 days ago

They DON'T want to save lives. Ppl know this, right?

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