cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24279636
[opinion piece by Bernie Sanders - goes beyond health care, gives proposals on other issues]
by Bernie Sanders
Tue 31 Dec 2024 14.59 EST
This is some of what we must do to reform our dysfunctional healthcare system | Bernie Sanders
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/bernie-sanders-healthcare-reform-opinion
6 Comments
Maggoty@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
We're voting for super old people anyways, we should have given Bernie his chance this year. This is a platform that would have won.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Sanders decided to throw his weight behind Biden relection, helping shut down criticism of the choice at a time when it was needed. That was not the right decision - including at the time not just in retrospect.
While I have a lot of respect for him, the party needs a new generation of leaders to step up. He's 83 - and I don't mean it's time for the 65 year olds to step up. Its time the 30 and 40 something year olds step forward.
Maggoty@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Sanders did that because he knew there wasn't going to be a real primary. There never is when there's a presidential incumbent. And I agree that we need the Millennials now. But we all know a Millennial won't be given a chance until the last Boomer has had their chance; even if they have terminal throat cancer.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
It doesn't directly involve guillotines, but I feel like they will still be required to implement those proposed changes without opposition
ramsorge@discuss.online · 4 pts · 1y
We could probably sell the opportunity to pull the rope.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
They'll only change through force (i.e. threat of losing profits or threat of losing their lives). It doesn't have to come through vigilante justice but I think we need to make it a lot easier to lock up CEOs. The biggest problem is that CEOs are obligated to maximize shareholder value so they can pretty much always shield themselves with that precedent.