Anonymous #1 1d

Can you expand on allowing bad is also bad

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Anonymous OP 1d

we shouldn’t stop programs from starting bc they are flawed. incremental progress is still progress. starting a program with good intentions that very obviously is not doing what it was intended to, is bad and should be shut down.

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Anonymous #1 1d

i’d say that’s fair, but it’s the “not doing what it was intended to do” that gets loaded. Obama care, for example, is not doing what Obama said it was going to do in a few different ways, but we seemingly do not have another proposal that will pass, and it’s the killing it (or other programs like it) before we have that solution that I am referencing

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Can you give any evidence that the CIA has had any major involvement in USAID in the past like 40 years ? like it’s not the first time I’ve heard that, and I’m not saying you’re wrong. I just haven’t seen any proof, but I’m always open to it Fuck the CIA

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Anonymous OP 1d

it raised the avg cost of healthcare for everyone substantially to justify somewhat helping a few people. it absolutely wrecked middle class cash flow and US healthcare as a whole. before it needed to at least give the illusion it was competitive and not just a huge slush fund for all levels of medical supplies. when even the insurance companies take the consumers side, yk it’s bad

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Anonymous #1 1d

I’m a nurse and i would say that everything you just said was incorrect, for one, the ACA has provided medical coverage to 50 million Americans, and it’s (usually) good medical coverage. That is not a few people. And it also did not raise the price of healthcare for most people, it is a bit of a mix bag however, national healthcare spending was rising year over year for decades, and while it is still rising, it has dropped substantially post implementation of the ACA.

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Anonymous #1 1d

there’s also no evidence that it wrecked healthcare in anyway and insurance companies were bad to begin with. There’s certainly no evidence that it impacted the middle class in any way other than positively

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I mean, the structural dependent argument is a valid one, but the solution isn’t just cut them off. It’s to spin that money to help them develop their own systems. And OK, it doesn’t have to be major. Can you give me any evidence at all?

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dependence ** spend **

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Anonymous OP 1d

premiums rose idk what you are smoking. it dropped for ~a year~ and then were up almost another $100/month before he left office. and why it rose isn’t hard to see. when there’s money to be exploited from the government, it is. and the down stream effect is that everyone who could afford it before, cannot or struggles to. we see this time and time again through multiple programs. make a nationalized healthcare, let people pay for the extras if they want. just take it from social security

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Anonymous #1 1d

Again, premiums were rising before the aca. premiums rose the most between 2014 and 2018, due to newly mandated essential health coverage in the private market, but they were rising before. premiums for people who receive healthcare through their work slowed significantly, however. And yes, there will always be exploitation in healthcare, but that ties back to my original statement that perfection is the enemy of good.

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Anonymous #1 1d

I am fully with the national healthcare service. But there’s no proposals in Congress that will ever pass. However, there are proposals to kill the ACA that have a good chance of passing.

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I personally like that the IS is able to exercise soft power helping other countries, it establishes our credibility as a leader in science, and humanitarian issues

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Anonymous #1 1d

It also provided preexisting condition protections so that people weren’t locked to their job as the only source of health care they could get

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