I strongly suspect that we will get universal healthcare in this country after the healthcare system collapses in the next 5-15 years, but probably not before.

We can get universal healthcare in this country but we are going to have to fix...so much shit...to get there.

And #8: half the people who run this country are evil fuckers and would try to crash the system every 2.5 years and also be like "okay we've decided that women don't get healthcare any more" and "okay we've decided, no more funding for sickle cell anemia" and shit like that

Oh, a commenter just reminded me. #7: all the unexamined puritan shit that's like "oh I'm paying for her health care? well DID SHE DO EVERYTHING RIGHT IN HER LIFE? no??? she smoked weed once in college? well, no health care for HER"

These are the things that stand against us in enacting universal health care. We could absolutely do it, but we are going to have put a big knife through the back of a lot of capital in order to do so, and we fucking should.

6. The largest media corporations are owned by people who own both the employers and in some instances the health companies, and so they have an incentive to stoke fears of #3 and #4, which makes educating others very difficult.

5. Employers love the fact that people cannot just leave their jobs. A lot of employers. Economic precarity is to their benefit.

4. Our country's history in administering benefits programs has been so racist that many groups lack trust that they would be able to access care.

3. Our healthcare in this country is so bad that people are aware of all the ways that healthcare can suck. We are all shellshocked from random bills and denials of care coming after prior authorizations. It is EASY for naysayers to raise the specter of bogeymen when we are surrounded by monsters.

And they are going to point that out and I think there are maybe five politicians in office today who will say "well, we gotta do what we gotta do" about it. Everyone else? No.

That is going to have knock on impacts on stock portfolios, retirement portfolios--so, so, so many things. Capitalism has dug its fingers deep into health care, and it's going to hurt when we take them out. It just is.

What will happen to United Healthcare if we enact single payer? In the best instance, they'll survive, but be so highly regulated that the stock price will fall. Alternately, they will cease to exist.

2. United Healthcare is the third largest corporation in this country. Its compatriots are not far behind. Their combined spending power has enabled them to purchase every politician. And they basically have.

These reasons are presented not in any particular order, but. 1. This country is obsessed with brown people not getting "free" things (even if they are paying for those things). The white part of this country has deep-seated cultural aversions to that. We HAVE to fix that.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

stalled again, still have $702 left. i have to transfer the funds in time to pay rent on the 29th. i probably? will be able to scrape together enough in time but then we will have no money for anything for the forseeable future. i really need help. please share and consider a commission

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

rich people should pay lots of tax, well-off people should pay lots but less, middle class people should pay a good bit, etc taxes are what you pay to live in a civilized society to the extent you can and is proper, and we should not embrace tax-cutting on the left

the sudden "nobody has to pay taxes" thing with even fairly progressive dems wreaks of klein/shor/eggy brainworms that has somehow merged with mmt/linux guy brainworms

From their own words; the now infamous on here "I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" quote was specifically in response to seeing a slaveowner auctioning off his own barely teenaged daughter

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Dangerously biased, arrogant, hypocritical culture (constant narrative push about "meritocracy" and affirmative action yet full of "legacy" mediocre white men who feel entitled and angry at minorities, women, even Me Too) of NYT editors, senior reporters, nepo baby owner AG Sulzberger:

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

A marvel of free markets

it just makes you aware of how completely arbitrary it all is. one moment society perceives you one way, the other it perceives you a different way. nothing about your capabilities change, but suddenly the world treats you completely different.

so many books could be written about the totally sudden shift from being seen as a budding genius to being seen as not even very competent a lot of trans women experience after transitioning. one of the strangest ways to get direct insight into society's completely perverse treatment of gender

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Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

The thing about being hyper-rich is, every day you wake up faced by the moral dilemma of having unimaginable amounts of money you can't possibly find a use for, that could save an unimaginable number of lives, today. And every morning you choose to land on the wrong side of that dilemma

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hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Hey everyone coming on here to post about the headline/subhead in the post: here’s a link to the form where you can contact NPR’s public editor about this. Contacting them is more likely to change things than replying to the post (but also, reply to the post) help.npr.org/contact/s/co...

He did not “accuse” them of it. He’s a judge. He “found” that they had, in fact, done so. JFC NPR, do better.

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

When conservative control over bodies--especially women's bodies--is growing by the day it is downright insulting to see folks compare it to HRT or Abortion medication. If it helps you or you medically need it? Great. But don't lie to me and pretend it isn't being used as a tool to STRIP autonomy

You can, and need to, separate the medicine itself from how it is being used, sold, and marketed. It is impossible to watch ANYTHING now without getting 3 different ads for some fuckin GLP-1 service going HEY IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO GET SKINNY COME ON DON'T YOU WANT TO BE HOT LIKE THESE PEOPLE

Absolutely losing my mind seeing folks try and paint GLP-1s as this REVOLUTION OF BODILY AUTONOMY They are absolutely important drugs that can save lives but it is just absolutely ignorant to pretend that they aren't part of a massive societal trend to attack fat bodies and enforce beauty standards

I do not know how else I can say "GLP-1s are a very useful drug that can be life-changing and life-saving for many people and should exist" and "they are also mass marketed, prescribed, and sold as a miracle weight loss drug and being used to perpetuate fatphobia" are statements that can coexist

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

Help Alexis Reach Heaven Through The Violence.

Voting to kill off trans people, who skew younger than any other demographic, does not make me want to Pokemon Go To The Polls you fucking dipshits. Do you want to win elections or what

Jen did great work actually reaching out to these reps to ask them why the fuck they’re selling us out, so my anger is absolutely not at her. But holy shit what the fuck is the point of an equality caucus? At least the republicans have enough of a spine to tell me to my face they want to kill us

(ok so realistically 10-15 years of development probably needed to make this potentially more widespread and cost effective but it’s still a step in the right direction)

For the foreseeable future I remain a cyborg constantly in fear of my sugar going too high or too low with all of the related long term complications and acute dangers but producing insulin again and being able to just…eat and exercise and etc. without constantly checking my sugars would be…

I cannot even begin to describe what a big deal this would be if it can be replicated at scale.

What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck.

The real reason he (and others) are pretending to be angry is that I made an analogy between GLP-1s & AI; both have been hyper-promoted by the fascist VCs, separate from the original purposes they had, because of their utility for the social goals of the tycoons, like eugenics & the war on labor.

This guy quote-posted me and said I was crazy for saying that the fascist tech VCs talk about putting GLP-1s in the water supply. (They do.) This is an issue I have had for more than a decade, which is that people think *I* am crazy when I accurately describe what the tycoons are saying or doing.

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