listening to podsave guy lament "how could we cede so much of healthcare discussion to these conspiracists like RFK jr.?" just thinking...hmm, if only there was some kind of mass program that would make real/evidence based healthcare more affordable and less alienating to regular people. Alas! - ThreadSky

chriswade.bsky.social • 119 days ago

listening to podsave guy lament "how could we cede so much of healthcare discussion to these conspiracists like RFK jr.?" just thinking...hmm, if only there was some kind of mass program that would make real/evidence based healthcare more affordable and less alienating to regular people. Alas!

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bagfumbler.bsky.social•119 days ago

They're called PodJons because after every episode, they're taken behind the studio and shot, and another set of clones is released from their pods to record the next, possessing none of the memories of the previous set.

teddylj.bsky.social•119 days ago

Eternal SponCon of The Thoughtless Jons

therake.bsky.social•119 days ago

The PodJons recording above a giant water tank and Tesla Coil like The Great Danton is a tremendous mental image.

eireog.bsky.social•119 days ago

Neoliberalism digging deep to find more neoliberalism that will solve the problems.

It's neoliberalism all the way down

astraldad.bsky.social•119 days ago

Dig up, stupid!

lmfsilva.bsky.social•119 days ago

Yes, but that would have alienated all the Liz Cheney voters who are happy with their insurance. There's dozens of them. DOZENS.

zooruler.bsky.social•113 days ago

I keep thinking about how This Empire is just falling apart. What made the rot visible? Trump’s victory off Hilldawg’s shitty performance, in particular with Medicare. You promise your people a scrap of health care coverage, and maybe all this gurning at the end of empire could’ve been avoided?

zooruler.bsky.social•113 days ago

Apparatchiks are just so fucking avaricious and greedy about this that they forget a bigger self-interest in keeping the ship afloat. It looks like cheap bribes sparkle more than continuing empire. Just utterly extraordinary.

kj1313.bsky.social•119 days ago

I just went for a mammogram and there was a sign posted that said the copay for Medicare recipients is $240, I mean what are we even doing here if the government won't even fight for free or nominal copay payments.

mjrkong.bsky.social•119 days ago

Why you listening to podsave guys ?

chriswade.bsky.social•119 days ago

good source for what the mainline democratic take on things is/to have arguments in my head on my morning walk

p4wst.bsky.social•119 days ago

I get it entirely. Healthier to do this and shower debates than actually reply to stupid posts like an insane person.

jkflowers.bsky.social•119 days ago

Because he's the hardest-working guy on chapo by far

tripeberry.bsky.social•119 days ago

Convinced the vaccines will murder my kids in their sleep and that this crystal I shoved up my ass will cure my diabetes and will never have access to healthcare that tells me otherwise.

gordondouglas.bsky.social•119 days ago

Listening to the Sum of all Johns must take years off your life from rage-stress.

amideadyet.bsky.social•119 days ago

Nothing to be done, says only nation where this routinely happens

goodtimeboy.bsky.social•119 days ago

People just want access to healthcare and a billing system based on a series of convaluted means tests

fleerultra.bsky.social•119 days ago

oh well, i guess only solution is to become virulently anti-trans

oakenrays.bsky.social•119 days ago

If you like your doctor you can keep them!!!!!!!!!

stuckfuelnozzle.bsky.social•119 days ago

She had an entire campaign to say the word "healthcare" and she just .... didn't! Oh well!

jakeythesnakey.bsky.social•119 days ago

Factually untrue! Medicaid covering home health aides was a big part of the last leg of the campaign!

chriswade.bsky.social•119 days ago

this would be a good policy that would help a lot of people. The problem with it alone, and Kamala in general, is putting up these scattershot policy band-aids to win 1% support from some constituency just comes off as incoherent & pandering without a comprehensive program/ideology to support it.

jakeythesnakey.bsky.social•119 days ago

I see where ur coming from and I agree with the broad strokes, but I struggle to reconcile your 1st sentence with your 2nd sentence. A good policy that would help a lot of people is an incoherent pandering bandaid? Agree that a failure to link it to broader themes hurt her, for whatever that’s worth

chriswade.bsky.social•119 days ago

Yeah, I mean you look at the extent of the massive & manifest failures of American Healthcare and say "ok well, to fix this I'm going to expand one program to cover one issue" and you look like you're not actually trying to fix anything because you don't really think it's broken. it's pure gesture

nelward.bsky.social•119 days ago

We need universal coverage. Not means tested half measures.

hk47.bsky.social•119 days ago

Okay and then what happened

Maybe she should have said that sooner than 13 minutes before she lost.

jakeythesnakey.bsky.social•119 days ago

All I’m saying is that it is absolutely 100% incorrect to say that Harris did not talk about healthcare in the campaign. There are many other valid critiques to make, like the one you just gave

hk47.bsky.social•118 days ago

Ah yeah, I dig.

ccantu.bsky.social•119 days ago

it's because of RFK jr's cool voice. the pod save guys should have pitched their market based plan to lower healthcare costs for first generation college grads under 40 who started a business that makes less than 65k per year in a cooler voice.

crtrwospecies.bsky.social•119 days ago

This is not probably neither here nor there, but I found out the other day that one of the first people I blocked on Bluesky was one of the Pod Save guys. I assumed he was just a weirdly aggressive rando but apparently he was a weirdly aggressive podcast guy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dobzid.bsky.social•114 days ago

Seems strange how RFK is talking about regulations on food companies, but deregulation is one of the main platforms of the whole Republican Party for almost 50 years

andrewdyer.bsky.social•119 days ago

but what to call it???

hommesenbois.bsky.social•119 days ago

If you thought MCA was good, just wait until I tell you about this means tested tax credit for private insurers. People love their private insurance!

theinfamous.gdub.online•119 days ago

They've gotta' be some of the stupidest motherfuckers around for real. Just absolutely allergic to good ideas.

brookebaybee.bsky.social•119 days ago

That just doesn't seem financially viable. Now excuse me while I approve another 50 Billion in arms shipments to Israel

rivasad.bsky.social•118 days ago

I don’t support funding Israel but we spent $4.5T on healthcare in 2022 (about $14k per person). We need to raise taxes on the middle class to fund universal healthcare and Trump has things headed in the opposite direction.

theinfamous.gdub.online•119 days ago

I was about to be so mad before I read the second sentence 😆

scooterbones.bsky.social•119 days ago

This is why Political Calvinisn is so important to the lukewarm institutionalist Democrat. If these people were always secretly Republicans anyway it can't be on you to lose them.

gaius.bsky.social•119 days ago

Guys who never talk about healthcare wondering why people listen to the only ones who do

patomicbomb.bsky.social•119 days ago

I can’t pay those fancy hospital stays so whenever I need a checkup I go to the old crone of the woods. A foul smelling salve to cure my malaise costs only a lock of my first born’s hair

lurrie.bsky.social•119 days ago

for all who want it!

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