“Donald, if you’re watching, we’ll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American.”
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan who ran on a progressive platform with Medicare for All at its center, said Friday that he doesn’t care what the policy is called so long as it passes, even during Donald Trump’s lame duck term, which will begin in January.
Appearing on Zeteo with editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan, El-Sayed was asked if he agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who a night earlier pronounced that he wasn’t so sure that if Democratic majorities in the US House and Senate passed a Medicare for All Bill that Trump wouldn’t sign it.
“If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I’m ok with it. He seems to like to put his name on things,” said El-Sayed.
It’s not like we’re not all going to call it HabibiCare anyway
I wouldn’t even feel bad calling it Trump Care if they call it that and he signs it.
We’d just be omitting the implied “Doesn’t” from the middle.
When they said they’d offer cheaper prescription meds on TrumpRX I decided I’d rather die than use that site.
Tricking republicans into being decent people is fine with me. It’s like when you trick your cat into taking their medicine. Your cat thinks they’re getting a free treat, and you no longer have to deal with them shitting all over the walls.
It’s kinda funny how appropriate this analogy is.
It is sad how much ideology has to crap on the futures of the vulnerable. I’m glad El-Sayed is pushing for the things that many countries already give their population. Not everything has to be a profit race to the bottom
He’s so easy to manipulate. Just make him think it’s his idea, slap his name on it, and let him sign yet another bill he didn’t read with cameras flashing and people calling him ‘sir’. Boom, socialism.
Maybe throw in a peace prize or two to sweeten the deal.
Just have Mamdani go and lobby Trump for it. Trump has such a man-crush on him. It might lead to some uncomfortable comments about Mamdani’s ass, but I’m sure Z would take those for the cause…
Seems to have a little chub for El-Sayed too!
Yup it’s really easy to manipulate a Narcissist. All you gotta do is stroke their ego and they’ll eat right out of your hand. Tell them how wise and strong and powerful they are. That’s what Mamdani did.
I dont care if they name it “trump is better than obama care” if it gets his stupid ass to sign it.
His pragmatism is stunning and brave and very welcome! This is how you get shit done, fuck the go-high-when-they-go-low bullcrap
If we need their participation because they hold the Presidential fucking Veto and remain influential among a still way too high demographic that its better or free to have buy-in with , you work with them to help them come around to what you need to get done, especially when they can be bought so cheaply that all it takes is temporarily stamping their name on it or holding up on the raining down of criminal investigations and legal reckoning to ensure they let thru and that they would just pardon themselves from immediately anyhow.
Those largely performative things can wait, universal health care and possibly other goodies like banning legislative voter map fraud/disenfranchisement cant wait, shit needs to change and change soon. Remember: Trump isnt actually a “conservative”, he was a registered Democrat for most of his life and he’s shown he cares far more about flashy branding and photo ops and superficially being liked, consulted with, presenting the finished product he practically had zero to do with but that can benefit from his cultural and branding bona fides.
Sure Putin’s probably got some shit on him but it seems like thats largely at a stalemate where if he pushes the guy any further Trump might just say fuck it and unleash the coveted systems Ukraine wants and terminally successful sanctions that could actually finish the war in record time and decimate Russkies and even Putin. He could be the newly empowered Dem’s own higher controlled Opposition in Name Only President who actually fucks over his own Party for a chance at hitching his boat to the rising Dems and actually get all the cool shit everyone would have thought impossible.
Its gonna be pretty hard for the remaining parasitic DINOs to contain the damage when fucking Trump is already prematurely announcing working with DSA to deliver the goods America actually needs (by doing nothing more than shuttig up the traitors by advertising it and ultimatey just signing it)
Just goes to show how insidious all the paid-for fuckhead AIPC+insiders+centrists were and how cynical they were in telegraphing their fear mongering about gasp a “socialist” [insert left and right wing boogie men which are often diametrically contradictory.
The damage done to the completely fucked Overton window and loss of faith in the electoral system and the despair its caused by hijacking the peoples vote so it didnt matter which party it went to but bipartisanly never went towards policies that could help them, only to the interests of the “donor” class (who,lets be real, are nothing but political bribery and pay to play access gone rampant) is aggregately incalcuable and it needs to be mitigated and all its upholders need to be unelectable after they finish their current terms and neutered before they have even have an iota of a chance to capitalize on the current blue wave their DSA betters largely made happen for the party.
DSA holds the promise of a left Tea Party but the actual better Angels inherent to our “side” that is the counterpart to the Demons comprising the Republicans’/Tea Party wing (which is almost the entire party at this point in the same way the Dems were largely corporate/DINOs prior to independants loosely associated like Bernie and DSA)
While people in Israel have healthcare for all.
And highly subsidized (not free, but incredibly cheap) higher education.
Imagine that, Americans: free healthcare and no real student debt. We’ve never had anything close, but we’ve paid for Israel to have it all along.
They’re pretty good at healthending too
Apparently wats good enuff for gander (Schumer and Israel) is too good for Goose (US populace).
Americans wouldnt understand universal healthcare, it would anger and confuse them ⸮
—Schumer and crntrist/corporate Dems, probably
When Hakeem Jeffries says stuff like this it’s terrifying because he’s a scumbag corporate sell-out, but when Dr. Abdul says it I’m on board and can’t wait to see what he comes up with, because he actually seems like a good dude we can trust to negotiate for us instead of corporate paymasters
Hakeem doesn’t say stuff like this and that’s why he needs to go.
Hakeem will describe vague notions of problems to be fixed with ultimate solutions that end up being “give health insurers more money”.
Abdul is proposing the policy, medicare for all, and saying “but call it whatever you want”. Hakeem will identify a problem, but ultimately will push dogshit policies that aren’t popular.
That’s part of why he’s so much better.
The thing it works 1000x better with an El-Sayed or Mamdani, because they’re actually cool.
trump openly complains about how everyone around him are losers, and those are the people he picks to spend all his time with.
Throw someone with even average charisma in that room, trump loves them. Jeffries/Schumer fucking suck, trump won’t want to deal with them. He can’t get enough of Mamdani, and El-Sayed will be the same.
trump legitimately wants to be loved, he’s just a shitty person who doesn’t know how to get it and like a toddler he’d rather have hate than nothing. Any attention is better than none
The best part of it is, it would still have a real name like “Obamacare” is officially “Affordable Care Act”.
Absolutely zero reason to ever use “trumpcare” once it passed
Most of the responses to you really miss the point.
ACA was called Obamacare to prey on certain people’s dislike of Obama. So many people loved the ACA and didn’t realize they were on “Obamacare”
Even before Trump was elected, the joke was than anything Obama said would be disagreed with. That’s been a joke since maybe 2008. Before he was even in office.
The real point is that if you told Trump he could call it Trumpcare he would agree with whatever you wanted. That’s been a joke since Trump started being involved around 2016.
Shhh. Don’t tell him that.
I hope they pass it in both chambers.
I’d hate it as much as MAGA hates Obamacare. But it’d be stupid not to use it.
I almost canceled an appointment for a possible torn muscle cause the inspection is gonna cost at least 500$.
Luckily I have healthcare through my tribe which I didn’t know about.
Yeah that’s a masterclass in dealing with him. It doesn’t matter what it’s called. If it gets it passed then hell yeah.
Carney should take notes here. Canada could get whatever it wants with this method that costs nothing.
Sure but I’m going to call it Islamo-care if it passes
