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Re:U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gi... by nerdponx on Thursday April 29, 2021 @03:13PM (#26985293)
This idea that we need to provide our social contract / safety net exclusively via employers is so strange to me, compared to simply owning that if we want these to be rights of our citizens then the government should be providing them as tax-paid services.

This is the big problem that no policymaker wants to address, because there is a huge amount of money being made off of the status quo. And decades of bad-faith "big government" rhetoric plus "starve the beast" policy have soured the public on it.

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Re:U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gi... by acdha on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:10PM (#26987461)
> This is the big problem that no policymaker wants to address, because there is a huge amount of money being made off of the status quo.

The people trying to pass things like Medicare for all would disagree with the “no policymaker” part. Not a majority but they exist and are generally vocal about mentioning this exact point.

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Re:U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gi... by conductr on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:13PM (#26988014)
I think they had a chance until they started calling it Medicare for all, it’s horrible branding since “good doctors” are known for not accepting Medicare
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Re:U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gi... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:27AM (#26993901)
Democrats have had terrible branding for longer than I've been alive. It's harder to maintain a good brand when your competition is shameless and lies through their teeth about fabricated realities more than they tell the truth.
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