kinther@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 5 months agoRemember When Trump Vowed Not to Touch Medicaid? It’s Already Begun.newrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1414arrow-down12
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minus-squareMammal@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 months agoMedicade exists so that poor people don’t start demanding single-payer. This will backfire horribly if one’s goal is to maintain the stranglehold private insurance companies have on US healthcare.
minus-squareAllonzee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·5 months agoNot if they don’t care and neither party offers a candidate willing to curtail corporate profits. I don’t see a neoliberal or a fascist doing that. If there is another election that isn’t an “election.”
minus-squareBeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoI fear we’ll have tanks rolling down the street before we have healthcare.
Medicade exists so that poor people don’t start demanding single-payer. This will backfire horribly if one’s goal is to maintain the stranglehold private insurance companies have on US healthcare.
Not if they don’t care and neither party offers a candidate willing to curtail corporate profits.
I don’t see a neoliberal or a fascist doing that. If there is another election that isn’t an “election.”
I fear we’ll have tanks rolling down the street before we have healthcare.
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