• doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    1 day ago

    Affordable Care Act was terrible at first. It’s barely better now. And I was talking about the last four years mostly. My family’s wages went down when you factor healthcare costs (not even considering the inflation on food etc). Democrats need to be pushing for single payer, it’s actually popular even among some Republican voters if the Democrats knew how to communicate with people instead of calling them names. If they would run on fixing minimum wage and European style healthcare they would probably be able to get it done.

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      19 hours ago

      Affordable Care Act was terrible at first.

      As a representative of everyone with a preexisting condition before the ACA was passed, I am mentally violating the community civility rule at you right now.

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      21 hours ago

      Democrats need to be pushing for single payer

      Guess how Hilary Clinton first became Public Enemy #1 to conservatives in the early '90s.

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        20 hours ago

        This was before the current enshittification. My family was all against it in the 90s and today they’re all saying that insurance companies are what’s wrong with health care. Things have changed.

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          And will they vote for someone who is pushing single payer or call it socialism today?