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POV: you ran against the Medicare for All candidate and then dismantled all the COVID protections to make treats cheaper (i.redd.it)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1772980651534229876

kicker: most of the comments are angry libertarians screaming yOU CANNOT FORCE ME TO RECEIVE HEALTHCARE MR PRESIDENT SIR

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring healthcare access for all Americans would save over 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year.
We calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8572548/

Every president or presidential candidate who is against universal healthcare is essentially saying that they are willing to allow a quarter of a million people to die (and waste 2 trillion dollars) over the course of their term in order to protect the profits of healthcare companies. Do they really expect us to forget the fact that most prominent Democrats supported that level of social murder only a few years ago?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll never forget that moment in the 2016 dem debates when they were asked if they supported universal healthcare to raise their hands, there were like 10 candidates up there including copmala and only Bernie and Elizabeth Warren raised their hands

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

you must be remembering 2020? Kamala didn't run for president in 2016 and neither did Warren

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And in the 2020 primary debates Harris did raise her hand and the next day her campaign staff walked it back. Twice, iirc.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

protect the profits of healthcare companies

correction: The profits of private health insurance companies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The big hospital chains are just as bad, if not worse

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Banks masquerading as health care providers. Raze them to the ground (in minecraft)