Trump Warns That if Kamala Harris Wins, 'Everybody Gets Health Care'
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Donald Trump repeatedly lied about single-payer health care — an idea he and Harris both previously supported but no longer do.
  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    His message is for those who would rather suffer than have “those” people get help.

      • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I have a cousin who I wouldn’t say is a 1%er, but maybe a 5%er. Very well off. You know why she’s against universal health care?

        Because “they” (poor people) would be able to see “her” doctor. And “she pays for a doctor that is good enough where he doesn’t have to work for ‘those’ people”. And she shouldn’t have to wait extra time for an appointment, dammit! Do you know who she is?!?!?!?!?

        Yeah, she’s one of them. Needless to say, we don’t talk much. I just wanted to say that there are plenty of people who are against universal healthcare because they think that somehow a kid going to see a doctor for the first time will somehow inconvenience them.

        Some people don’t pull the ladder up behind them. They kick it down, then wave bye-bye to you while watching you fall.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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      1 month ago

      It’s not just that. It’s also the “I don’t want my tax dollars paying for some other person’s health care” crowd.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Oh dear god, You mean I’d finally have coverage, like an actual first world nation, to get my hereditary issues looked at, and treated?

    DEAR GOD, THE INHUMANITY OF IT ALL.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      During a rambling press conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said of Harris, “She cosponsored legislation to abolish very popular private health insurance, which 150 [million] Americans rely on, dumping everyone onto inferior socialist government run health care systems with rationing and deadly wait times, while massively raising your taxes. She wants to take away your private health care.

      “It’s the best health care in the world,” he continued, adding, “You’re all going to be thrown into a communist system … You’re going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.”

      She’s going to give you the bad health care. The kind that the foreigners and the blah people get. You’re not going to receive the special elite luxury care. You’re going to get the same care as everyone else.

      • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        It was always a war cry for the elites. “You won’t be able to buy superior healthcare anymore. You’ll have to wait like the rest of the plebs”.

        We already have ridiculous wait times. I got told by my doctor that I couldn’t reschedule my appointment because it was booked out 2 months. I had to reschedule because the office was closed for a week due to a fucking Hurricane.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        You mean like medicare/medicaid?

        I know people on both, they get fantastic healthcare.

        Its a lot better than the big bowl of fuckall nothing I got now.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          You mean like medicare/medicaid?

          The conservative theory is that Medicaid is shit and will kill your mum.

          Medicare is gold, but it only works if we ration it for Boomers exclusively.

          If you “steal” private health insurance to pay for Medicaid, you’re basically murdering people. If you open the doors to Medicare, you’ll use up all the good medicine and “swamp the boat” as it were, ruining it for everyone currently on the plan.

          Its a lot better than the big bowl of fuckall nothing I got now

          Obviously, you don’t need health care. You just need better bootstraps and a stronger pull.

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      She does, she has discussed a number of methods of doing so, from expanding medicaid to all Americans, to doing a few other methods of basically using the government as payee, and negotiator, for insurance coverage that will be applied to every tax payer.

      Will she really do anything? Yet to be seen.

  • frezik@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    It’s great when a quote is taken out of context, and then you look at the context, and it’s even worse.

    “She cosponsored legislation to abolish very popular private health insurance, which 150 [million] Americans rely on, dumping everyone onto inferior socialist government run health care systems with rationing and deadly wait times, while massively raising your taxes. She wants to take away your private health care.”

    As if 150M Americans have a real choice in private insurance, or that the bureaucracy of the system doesn’t already result in rationing and deadly wait times.

    As a side note, Project 2025 does something similar with cars. Something to the effect of “Americans overwhelmingly prefer cars” to justify ignoring bikes or public transit projects, again as if there was a real choice being offered.

    • cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Says the guy who never came up with an alternative to Obama Care and said “who knew health insurance was so complicated?”

      Get rid of private insurance! We pay a ton in premiums and they still get to decide what they want to cover. Private insurance is bullshit. I’ll just laterally move that premium to socialized health care so everyone has it.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I just don’t think grandma should be in front of an Obama Death Panel.

      The Death Panel should be guys trying to sacrifice her to the line, someone with zero knowledge of her care typing “no” in a spreadsheet, or, fuck it, let’s get an AI with a 90% error rate (always errs towards denial). Those are the right arbiters to decide the value of someone’s life.