• JBar2@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    What in the sam hell are you trying to communicate with this word salad?

    But if you want to talk politics and healthcare, there’s one party that’s made any real effort at improvement in the last 2 decades, and it’s the Democrats. The Republicans try to gut the system at every opportunity.

    There are plenty of Democrats in Congress that would like to continue to improve healthcare, but the Dems don’t have the numbers - particularly in the House - to pass further reform.

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      17 days ago

      There are plenty of Democrats in Congress that would like to continue to improve healthcare, but the Dems don’t have the numbers - particularly in the House - to pass further reform.

      So you’re saying therenis both “plenty” but also “not enough”?

      That doesn’t make logical sense to me…

      I’m saying not everyone Dem in office really wants to fix healthcare, as evident as there seems to always be just enough against progress to stop progress.

      And that logically it’s a safe assumption there’s even more that would oppose progress if they had to, they just don’t want to publicly oppose it unless they’re forced to.

      So we basically have two choices.

      1. Be reactive and keep assuming every Dem supports the party platform until they personally pull a Joe Manchin

      2. Be proactive and make sure the people on our team our really on our team before we have to rely on them. So that when we have the House, Senate, and presidency we can accomplish stuff.

      But if you want to talk politics and healthcare, there’s one party that’s made any real effort at improvement in the last 2 decades, and it’s the Democrats.

      And they got a more conservative version of Mitt Romney’s plan passed…

      And have spent over a decade opposi g we improve it up to at least where the Republican presidential candidate was 16 years ago…

      That’s not enough dawg

      Voters want more, they deserve more. So why not give voters a candidate that agrees so that we can easily prevent fascists from getting elected?

      I don’t see any downsides to the Dem party running Dem politicians that agree with Dem voters.

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        17 days ago

        I agree with all you’re saying. Obama’s Romneycare was also a huge gift to the insurance companies.

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          17 days ago

          Yeah, we didn’t get healthcare, we got a penalty for not being able to afford insurance…

          I get people being excited for any progress back then, I was too.

          But it’s 16 years later and now we want from both parties presenting plans to improving it, to one party trying to burn it down and one insisting asking for progress is worse than burning it down…

          People just treat it like a team sport now. If you’re not praising their pick, it means you picked the other team.

          Meanwhile I’m just out here advocating for the fundamentals.

          Like, what did happen to the picks and roll?