Wednesday, 23 September 2020

How We Get Universal Healthcare by Hari Kondabolu

quote [ Hari Kondabolu has a radical plan to get the healthcare we all deserve. Go to www.harikondabolu.com to sign my e-mail list and to find tour dates. ]

This has been my plan for like 6 years now!
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[by steele@9:06pmGMT]

Comments

mechavolt said @ 6:30am GMT on 24th Sep
I understand compromise. When you have two parties with incompatible priorities, then anything that you want done is going to end up somewhere in between.

What I don't understand is why Democrats, time and again, keep coming to the table with premade compromises as their starting position. And then the Republicans show up with their standard insanity and it shifts the whole compromise to the right. Instead of coming to the table with universal healthcare, they showed up with Romneycare and ended up with this barely functional, only marginally better system.

And they're fucking doing it again! Medicare for All is the compromise solution, not what you start at! Especially when your opponent is coming to the table with "poor and sick people deserve to die" as their starting point.

If I was in charge of the Democrats, I'd go, "OK, we want UBI and Universal Healthcare, and taxpayer-funded higher education. What? That isn't acceptable to you? Fine...we'll compromise with Medicare for All, a country-wide guaranteed jobs program, and loan forgiveness with lowered education costs."

Sorry, I'm drunk.
cb361 said[1] @ 9:11am GMT on 24th Sep
Perhaps most Democrats don't care about all those things much anyway, so their "initial" bargaining position is already the result of a series of compromises.
mechavolt said @ 9:34am GMT on 24th Sep [Score:2 Underrated]
Fair point. Neo-liberals are essentially Republican-lite with less obvious racism, after all.
cb361 said @ 9:47am GMT on 24th Sep
The number of people who go into politics because they want to make things better is dwarfed by the number who go into politics for the chance to bully people and extort money. Most of the latter group join conservative parties because they offer more opportunity for bullying and fraud, but not all.
maximumtodd said @ 6:11pm GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
I think most people go into it with good intentions and then just get beat down by the system and slowly compromise their values until they lose their souls.
steele said[1] @ 5:36pm GMT on 24th Sep
I mean Medicare 4 All and Bernie were the compromise. That was his project he adopted in hopes it would be an easier sell and the supporters lined up because he was the only one with the platform who was offering real solutions. All you have to do is go back through the primary coverage to see how quickly the original supporters dropped it to see that none but Bernie and his Our Revolution supporters were actually in favor it.

Hell, we're balls deep in the midst of the average Joe's life collapsing around them and the Dems are doing nothing, they've literally been a roadblock to leftist solutions since the very beginning. Anyone who still thinks the Democratic Party gives a fuck about them either has millions in the bank or is deluding themselves.

foobar said @ 8:01am GMT on 24th Sep
You don't get fully automated luxury gay space communism by asking nicely.
cb361 said @ 9:13am GMT on 24th Sep [Score:1 Funsightful]
You get it by Culture mercenaries infiltrating your government.
captainstubing said @ 10:23pm GMT on 24th Sep
Move to Australia?

Or anywhere civilised for that matter.
Fish said @ 8:17pm GMT on 25th Sep [Score:-2 Boring]
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foobar said @ 5:38am GMT on 28th Sep [Score:-2]
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