myDeaconmyhand
First man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain
"Affordable" is vague and so subjective as to be meaningless in a political context. In our current state, politicians conflate healthcare with health insurance, which is totally wrong. As it stands, hardly anyone in our country has "affordable" health care, yet ignorant people generally assume, due to the ACA, that most everyone has it. What many people have is access to a hardly affordable plan, that they definitely cant afford to use."access to affordable healthcare" is not a bullshit idea.
And it's better than the status quo. Presently there is much that is needed and not accessible or affordable wrt health care.
The vast majority of Americans with an "affordable" health insurance plan would be bankrupted by a catastrophic injury or deadly diagnosis. There are so many people in this country being charged hundreds of thousands of dollars to watch their children and loved ones die. Victims of mass shootings, such as the one in Las Vegas, were bankrupted by medical bills. We have an epidemic of people killing themselves by rationing their insulin. Somehow in all of the talk about pragmaticism and common sense, these situations are deemed acceptable.
So you say "Democrats cant change this with Republicans in charge". Sure, thats true - but that means you admit that conservatives - Democrat or Republican, who prevent progress, such as McCain no or Ben Sasse, are cruel people, who don't deserve good faith in negotiation. A political view, Democratic or Republican, that allows for so many people, Americans, to die unnecessarily is a direct condemnation of character.
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