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Full title: 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, and treason.
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As an outsider seeing the US from the internet, can I guess that you didnt get Medicare 4 All because people went :
"4 All? But like, not those people too, surely? Oh hell no. Something something socialism bad."
No, we didn't get it because our politicians are partly owned by the insurance companies.
The majority of people want Medicare for all and even more if you explain it without including the name.
We nearly had a public option in the Affordable Care Act, but then Democrats watered down their proposal before it ever went to up for an actual vote thanks to Lieberman. Which of course ended up making it a huge boon to the insurance companies, resulting in our current state of affairs.
The public option was never going to be in the final bill. It was there to be negotiated out for republican votes. When they refused to play ball, Lieberman had to play the part of the bad guy.
Lol, they had a super majority at the time. They never needed the Republican votes.
A large part of the democratic party identity at the time was bipartisanship. They used that as an excuse to water down any sort of public good legislation. It's why they started with a republican health insurance reform bill instead of single payer and it's why they ended up negotiating against themselves to drop the public option in the end.
I'm well aware. Still doesn't change the fact that it was a self-inflicted wound, and that they took out a public option when they didn't need to.
They needed to because they were lobbied to. The people's will only matters when it aligns with what the wealthy that are in power want. When you realize this policy begins to make more sense.
That's the meme, but I think it's more that insurance companies spend fortunes to ~~bribe~~ lobby for politicians to vote against it, not to mention fortunes in propaganda to push the narrative that universal healthcare is more expensive.
Universal healthcare is actually a bipartisan issue among the people. But as you expect, one side is really good at reframing terms to make it sound like It benefits the "non-deserving". The main "issue" over the decades is that everytime they try to creep this into making all insurance worse they get pushback.
So, kinda.