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“EVEN THE BROWNS???”
- His fanbase.This is from the 2024 campaign. Which he won, bafflingly.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Insanely, to most Americans, unaffordable for-profit health care is a flex.
Torn over the struggling small business that cant afford to pay a living wage for an artist.
So dont skip the shops with akward handmade signs made by people with minimal artistic talent.
Republicans always make Democrats sounds way cooler than they really are
They have more faith in the democratic party than I do LMAO
Yeah this is just another lie Trump told
Here’s the part I don’t understand.
In 2025, approximately 22 million Americans received subsidies through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace to help pay for their health insurance. That’s millions of working Americans who depend on these subsidies to afford coverage.
So who exactly is this statement supposed to appeal to? A significant number of Trump’s own constituents rely on healthcare.gov to purchase their health insurance. Without those subsidies, many of them are going to face the same financial reality I would.
Without my subsidy, my health insurance would cost approximately $1,800 a month. That’s $21,600 a year just to have health insurance, before paying a single dollar in deductibles or copays.
That’s absolute insanity.
When Trump uses words like “we” and makes speeches, he is only referring to his donors and henchmen.
We aren’t even a thought for him, not even his cult
Fuck I wish that was true
Oh, no. How could they possibly dare?..
There are people, who are afraid, free healthcare will lead to people not taking care of their health. That’s how they tried to astroturf the “pro-paid healthcare” movement in Hungary.
There are people, who are afraid, free healthcare will lead to people not taking care of their health
They are usually the same people that weighs 350 pounds and don’t trust vaccines.
But lecture people that the moment healthcare will be free, no one will be working out, and will be smoking 2354 packs a day.
The people angry about healthcare being paid for don’t currently have healthcare usually. Especially on the good liars, the look like total fools. Why you wouldn’t want your family to be able to go to a doctor and not go bankrupt is beyond me. Wild timeline. Weird it’s even an issue.
Which is BS of course, expensive healthcare makes people skip on prevention which leads to worse health and more expensive treatments. You just have to look to the US to see that.
I went to a surgery because I was bleeding from my ass. I was told it was covered. When I got here I was told it wasn’t covered. The doctor said it would be. It wasn’t, because the claim codes were in the wrong order. I should have never went into that surgery.
I’ve been on phone calls with the hospital, the insurance company, the doctor, and the hospital billing office (separate from the hospital and unable to communicate with it for some reason) for well over a year.
My insurance company assured me that it would be taken care of. They then closed the case and opened at least one other internal case where they say it’s not being taken care of.
I pay over 10k out of my paycheck to cover my family. That’s before we hit the 4k family deductible and still have to pay 20% on most services.
God bless the United States healthcare system.
I doubt your issue is unique in regards to fighting this crap. This is an issue with the insurance complex, not having it to begin with. Healthcare in USA is atrocious.
Conservatives will gladly suffer and die if it means the vulnerable will suffer the same fate. Nothing brings a conservative more joy than causing harm to others.
Maybe if we had non old bought centrist Dem leadership. Trump and Republicans just make up stuff. I remember them calling Biden a communist when the man is on camera saying he was a capitalist.
The food companies who sell that processed food slop and the food regulatory commissions that allow it should be paying for people’s healthcare. Don’t tell me it’s a choice. It’s only a choice for people who can afford it, and nowadays most can’t.
It really is the “everyone” that annoys people. I’ve asked conservatives to explain to me how insurance works as a business model. They pretty quickly realize two things:
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Monthly premiums of everyone cover the needs of anyone in need today. (Some seem to think it is like a bank account, but pretty quickly realize why that doesn’t make sense. Framing it around car insurance instead of healthcare tends to help if they are struggling here.)
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As a for profit business, they need to collect more in monthly premiums from each customer than they will provide that customer with benefits. Otherwise, the business is not profitable.
Once they understand these two facts, then they are ready to understand why government sponsored healthcare is optimal. It maximizes the number of people paying into the monthly premiums, while minimizing the profit margin because the government doesn’t need to be run at a profit. Many disagree with that last point, but will usually be satisfied by phrasing it as “bringing in a minimal profit. Otherwise, we wouldn’t want to be overtaxed, right?”
Once they understand these two facts, then they are ready to understand why government sponsored healthcare is optimal.
In my experience they’ll understand the two facts but still arrive at the unwavering conclusion that it’s still better than the government running it.
Sadly, I’ve had similar experiences. Some people are so indoctrinated or have had such bad experiences with corruption in other countries, they just refuse to acknowledge how it would work in the US.
Others are so committed to the identity of not letting anyone, especially the government, tell them what to do (pay taxes), but that is a dying breed in the era of MAGA and post-Covid. (I know COVID is still very much an issue for some areas, but I digress.)
My main point is that while getting someone to understand these two facts may not change their minds, their minds will not change unless they understand these 2 facts. It opens up the door to a conversation that cannot be had beforehand.
I can agree with that. even if we can’t change their mind, they’re at least finally beginning to see that corporations don’t operate in the best interests of consumers.
With government helthcare there are also no “in network” and “out of network” doctors. You can simply just go to any fucking docktor you want and you don’t have to worry if one of the people in the hospital is out of network and you suddenly have to pay thousands for something you had basically no control over.
This is in my opinion the biggest plus of government helthcare.
This also means you don’t have to change dr every time you change your job
I think all forced insurances must also provide a government alternative to keep the vultures humble
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Is it that hard to understand that in a society we have created to sustain and cooperate for the benefit of all, healthcare is something everyone should have? Like water, electricity, school, decent housing. If you want luxury items pay for them, but health as well as the other basics now in XXI century should never be a luxury, it should always be a human right.
