• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months 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.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      3 months 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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        And lets not even start about the state of seeing either specialists or especially mental healthcare.

        Brain is acting funny and flooding you with feel-bad chemicals every day and it’s impacting your life to the degree that some days you don’t even want to live in a constant state of despair for no reason? “Sorry, that will be three months to see a psychiatrist, try thinking positive and taking walks!”