Is my advice too mercenary?

Re:Is my advice too mercenary? by LordDragonfang on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:18PM (#31004683)

Correct, that was what I was alluding to. There's lots of good reasons to move to such a system, and no good reasons to keep our current system.

>Seeing as how that is not politically possibly

Basically every other liberal democracy has taxpayer funded healthcare, and even many US states have successful programs. It's extraordinarily silly to call that impossible, or to call what we have now a "compromise" rather than a clear case of corporate welfare being put before the welfare of the citizens.

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Re:Is my advice too mercenary? by lotsofpulp on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:39PM (#31005878)

There literally was a compromise in 2009 during the passage of ACA that nixed the “public option” (taxpayer funded) healthcare in order to win the votes of necessary Senators to pass the bill.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...

Seeing as how Republicans have zero interest in taxpayer funded healthcare, and they have held enough Senate seats to stymie any Democrat led effort for the past 20 years and probably next 20, I do not see why it is “silly” to call it politically impossible.

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Re:Is my advice too mercenary? by nebula8804 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:38AM (#31015975)

Seems like Texas will go blue as the population changes. They almost elected one in 2018. They may also flip North Carolina and Pennsylvania to permanent blue as well.

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