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This stupid system that everyone hates has been like this for decades (discuss.online)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

10 years ago, we almost had medicare for all as a public healthcare option. We were soooo close. But congress fucked it up necause they were lobbied by ins companies who knew everyone with a brain would flock to the public option.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    And what the insurance companies got instead was literally a law forcing everyone to buy their shitty products. Imagine the tobacco companies being so successful at lobbying that they got a law passed requiring everybody to smoke.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    10 years ago, we almost had medicare for all as a public healthcare option.

    The ACA was 15 years ago, and it wasn't even remotely close to Medicare for all. It was a halfassed Heritage Foundation policy that wouldn't cover everyone before just enough members of the Democratic caucus killed the public option, which was the intent from the very start.

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