Somehow everything the Democrats promise takes until very close to the cycle after they're elected until they even talk about it. Then, of course, they need your votes again so they can do the thing they promised the first time. Then (Insert Needed # of Dems here) will have some problem with it so it falls through and Dems lose the next cycle because of some reason that is the voters' fault.
dems(*DNC) dont want to lose thier only single issue voter cards: healthcare,,,etc. which is why they always try to use it as a carrot, and drops it or half-ass it when they get elected.
Maybe if voters weren't so goddamn fickle, they wouldn't feel the need to do shit like that. If they didn't do that, they'd just never get elected period.
Or they could pass the things they promised when they have the chance like everyone wants and improve people's lives buying themselves tons of goodwill with the voters in the future.
doubtful, if they are just having newsom, for '28. especially with Walz dropping out in minnesota, is problematic, because the gop/conservatives are trying hard to get a GOP elected in that state. if he can back down from a race this easy, it would be easy for republicans to keep threatening people til they dont run anymore.
Even if support for democrats is at a landslide level, there's a whole lot of things that the Trump admin can do to avoid them getting a victory, starting with voter suppression and ending with lying about the results.
No problem, those weren’t for you anyway. They’re for Exxon, Chevron. Elon, and all of Trumps friends and sycophants to divide up amongst themselves.
A little bit of Venezuela in my life
A little bit of Greenland by my side
A little bit of Cuba is all I need
A little bit of Canada is what I see
A little bit of Mexico in the sun
Fuck my life. I just found out my medicine (life saving, cannot live without medicine) has gone up in price 10x because of new insurance I got this year. Fuck me, right? In other countries, it's pennies, here it's hundreds of dollars.
i just got too much income to use the state healthcare, but the ACA subsidies has ended? so i cant really afford that anyways. and i have chronic skin conditions which means i would need refills often.
sometimes its not much of a discount in most cases, if its something like expensive one like biologics. he might want to look into coupons, many sites have them, but EXPENSIVE name brand ones are still too expensive.
I would have loved a North American Union with free trade, freedom of movement, and shared currency between Canada, the US, and Mexico, maybe even Cuba as well if it didn't infringe on their communism. But that was a dream from a more naive time when we could've been better neighbors.
These days it's enough to demand that our borders and healthcare costs don't increase. No new wars, no new territories, and we need to let Puerto Rico choose between statehood and independence.
Puerto Rico can't currently choose between statehood, continued territory status, or freedom. Not because they don't have agency, but because there's no consensus among Puerto Ricans. There are advantages and disadvantages for all three options. As I'm not Puerto Rican, I don't have a say in the debate.
Same with DC. Practically everyone there wants statehood, the license plates have "no taxation without representation" as a protest even, but Congress kills it every time it comes up.
The reason they are not a state has to do entirely with racism. Hell, they were actively sterilizing Puerto Rican women up to the 70's to try and stop them from having so many brown babies
I am right there with you. In Cambodia, I was friends with a group of old guys from the US and all four of them were able to treat serious medical conditions by avoiding US "healthcare". One of them had won a years-long battle against cancer right before i met them which he never could have afforded in the US.
Would have died years ago in the US, instead he was sitting around a table eating sushi and drinking beer with friends.
My health problems have largely been dental, and Thailand dentists unequivocally superseded the quality of care in the US for less than 1/3 of the cost at the relatively expensive bangkok clinic, BIDC.
If you ever want info about health care abroad, reach out to me at Travel.
There's some good healthcare info in this post, too.
Hope you got a nice vacation out of it too. My great uncle died in Thailand during the Vietnam War so I’ve always wanted to go there for that reason.
Thanks, i live abroad full time so it's all been a vacation for the past 15 years!
Cambodia was great: angkor wat is fascinating, the towns are all chill and i got to hang out with those old guys at a great sushi bar/microbrewery while they told all their stories.
I've backpacked and lived all over Thailand more than a few times, i recommend it fairly constantly. Great food, people, nature, waterfalls, you'll appreciate giving it a go.
hes using this to distract from the epstein files, which hurts alot of gop and billionaires, coicdentally they were suppose to release the files around the time of the attack.
hes doing everything to make it stick so it can overshadow any news on the epstein files, the MSMS are totally complicit.
We actually do. We have some of the best healthcare in the world if you can afford it, and healthcare stats that make it absolutely clear just how few people that is.
There there, Casey, don’t worry, if you take their healthcare there won't be any of their system left there, there will just be their special brand of chaos there.
"if I were to give you free healthcare, ok not free... lightly subsidised healthcare would you stop asking about the Epstein list and about all those kids I raped?" Tick one answer below:
(A) Yes.
(B) No, keep going to war and doing other shit to distract us!
Get invaded by Canada, Cuba or Greeland (Denmark) and you'll get first class healthcare (you'll have to give up your guns though). Get invaded by Mexico or Venezuela and the situation is a bit complicated, but you at least get basic medical care for free.
I recall one party trying really hard to improve things, and the other trying really hard to make sure they could still use healthcare to punish people
I recall one party trying really hard to improve things
I recall that party finding just enough no votes like they always do. No party wants healthcare.
If democrats supported healthcare with a quarter of the tenacity with which they support netanyahu, we would have free healthcare for everyone in this country.
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 244d
Good news! The democrats will win a landslide victory in 2026 and guarantee you health care!
Until 2028 when they need to compromise with the republicans on a spending bill.
doctordevice@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 244d
Somehow everything the Democrats promise takes until very close to the cycle after they're elected until they even talk about it. Then, of course, they need your votes again so they can do the thing they promised the first time. Then (Insert Needed # of Dems here) will have some problem with it so it falls through and Dems lose the next cycle because of some reason that is the voters' fault.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 244d
dems(*DNC) dont want to lose thier only single issue voter cards: healthcare,,,etc. which is why they always try to use it as a carrot, and drops it or half-ass it when they get elected.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -3 pts · 243d
Maybe if voters weren't so goddamn fickle, they wouldn't feel the need to do shit like that. If they didn't do that, they'd just never get elected period.
man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Or they could pass the things they promised when they have the chance like everyone wants and improve people's lives buying themselves tons of goodwill with the voters in the future.
Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 242d
goodwill with voters, yes, but not with their constituents (big business)
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 244d
I remember that time Obama gave us universal health care. Good times. 😕
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 244d
doubtful, if they are just having newsom, for '28. especially with Walz dropping out in minnesota, is problematic, because the gop/conservatives are trying hard to get a GOP elected in that state. if he can back down from a race this easy, it would be easy for republicans to keep threatening people til they dont run anymore.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 243d
Even if support for democrats is at a landslide level, there's a whole lot of things that the Trump admin can do to avoid them getting a victory, starting with voter suppression and ending with lying about the results.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 244d
They do not want you in Iran.
They do not want you in Japan.
They do not want you here or there.
They do not want you anywhere.
They do not want you. Understand?
Just calm the fuck down, Uncle Sam.
underisk@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 244d
No problem, those weren’t for you anyway. They’re for Exxon, Chevron. Elon, and all of Trumps friends and sycophants to divide up amongst themselves.
echo@lemmings.world · 37 pts · 244d
Amen - I could retire early and comfortably if I had guaranteed healthcare. As it is, I'll have to work until I die.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 244d
Just the way they want it.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 244d
If you retire, how are the billionaires supposed to extract maximum profit out of you? Now get back to work, you lazy slob!
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 244d
Women are so hard to read...
/s
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 244d
"Well, if you would just listen t--"
"So mysterious."
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 244d
Republican's response:
A little bit of Venezuela in my life
A little bit of Greenland by my side
A little bit of Cuba is all I need
A little bit of Canada is what I see
A little bit of Mexico in the sun
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
A little bit of oil makes me your man
man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
Lou Bega intensifies
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 244d
Fuck my life. I just found out my medicine (life saving, cannot live without medicine) has gone up in price 10x because of new insurance I got this year. Fuck me, right? In other countries, it's pennies, here it's hundreds of dollars.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 244d
i just got too much income to use the state healthcare, but the ACA subsidies has ended? so i cant really afford that anyways. and i have chronic skin conditions which means i would need refills often.
Bryllyg@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 244d
try contacting the manufacturer, maybe they have a program to help make it affordable.
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 244d
I'm sure they know that. Point of the post is that they shouldn't have to.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 244d
sometimes its not much of a discount in most cases, if its something like expensive one like biologics. he might want to look into coupons, many sites have them, but EXPENSIVE name brand ones are still too expensive.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 1 pts · 244d
Run away from that shithole as fast as you can.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 244d
I would have loved a North American Union with free trade, freedom of movement, and shared currency between Canada, the US, and Mexico, maybe even Cuba as well if it didn't infringe on their communism. But that was a dream from a more naive time when we could've been better neighbors.
These days it's enough to demand that our borders and healthcare costs don't increase. No new wars, no new territories, and we need to let Puerto Rico choose between statehood and independence.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Puerto Rico can't currently choose between statehood, continued territory status, or freedom. Not because they don't have agency, but because there's no consensus among Puerto Ricans. There are advantages and disadvantages for all three options. As I'm not Puerto Rican, I don't have a say in the debate.piccolo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 243d
The majority voted for statehood... but as long GOP controls congress, they dont have a chance because they'll lost their advantage.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
Same with DC. Practically everyone there wants statehood, the license plates have "no taxation without representation" as a protest even, but Congress kills it every time it comes up.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Ahh, sorry. My info was out of date. I live on the opposite coast so I hadn't heard anything about PR in some time.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
The reason they are not a state has to do entirely with racism. Hell, they were actively sterilizing Puerto Rican women up to the 70's to try and stop them from having so many brown babies
Kanda@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 243d
Too bad you can't invade healthcare
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 243d
Mario's Green Brother did
Kanda@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 243d
Not really, just made a hit on some lowlife insurance fraudster
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 243d
Better than nothing.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 12 pts · 243d
Best I can do is a couple of forever wars.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 244d
What she also wanted to do was fund a Nazi with a blue checkmark.
Megacomboburrito@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 244d
"Don't worry, we're gonna take Cuba and get all of their doctors to give us the healthcare" /s
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 8 pts · 244d
Hey US Americans, quick reminder that quality, affordable healthcare is available abroad; I use it and you can ask about healthcare here or in travel.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
If I ever get cancer then this is the route I’m going to cure it. Fuck this country when it comes to how they rob you if you have cancer.
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 8 pts · 243d
I am right there with you. In Cambodia, I was friends with a group of old guys from the US and all four of them were able to treat serious medical conditions by avoiding US "healthcare". One of them had won a years-long battle against cancer right before i met them which he never could have afforded in the US.
Would have died years ago in the US, instead he was sitting around a table eating sushi and drinking beer with friends.
My health problems have largely been dental, and Thailand dentists unequivocally superseded the quality of care in the US for less than 1/3 of the cost at the relatively expensive bangkok clinic, BIDC.
If you ever want info about health care abroad, reach out to me at Travel.
There's some good healthcare info in this post, too.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 243d
2nd link is just a picture.
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 243d
Thanks, fixed.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Hope you got a nice vacation out of it too. My great uncle died in Thailand during the Vietnam War so I’ve always wanted to go there for that reason.
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 243d
Thanks, i live abroad full time so it's all been a vacation for the past 15 years!
Cambodia was great: angkor wat is fascinating, the towns are all chill and i got to hang out with those old guys at a great sushi bar/microbrewery while they told all their stories.
I've backpacked and lived all over Thailand more than a few times, i recommend it fairly constantly. Great food, people, nature, waterfalls, you'll appreciate giving it a go.
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 243d
My sister travels to Mexico (from Nashville, TN) for healthcare she can afford.
bitofarambler@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 243d
That's great. I hear from a lot of travelers that Mexican hospitals provide high quality, affordable healthcare.
sirico@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 243d
Healthcare make line go down in the short term
pedz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 243d
Just engage in the army and kill people for free health care.
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 243d
Considering how the Trump administration feels about soldiers, I don't expect that to be a sure thing for long.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 243d
I can guarantee that if the Americans try to take Canada a whole lot of them will have all their healthcare worries taken care of.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 244d
hes using this to distract from the epstein files, which hurts alot of gop and billionaires, coicdentally they were suppose to release the files around the time of the attack.
hes doing everything to make it stick so it can overshadow any news on the epstein files, the MSMS are totally complicit.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 243d
Invading a sovereign nation, kidnapping their leader, and saying "we run this country now" is not a fucking distraction.
Threatening to do the same to several nations that used to be our allies is not a fucking distraction.
How can people be this fucking ignorant
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 244d
Revolution was and is your only solution, since no judge or court will do something.
PrinceOfSloth@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 244d
dont hawaii, guam or puerto rico either.
ClownStatue@piefed.social · 4 pts · 244d
Trump: We have healthcare, the best healthcare actually. Better than anybody else. Some people say… you get it
The healthcare at home: Venezuelan oil
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 243d
We actually do. We have some of the best healthcare in the world if you can afford it, and healthcare stats that make it absolutely clear just how few people that is.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 243d
Trump voter's response as they die from an easily treatable disease: He's right, though, we do.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 243d
There there, Casey, don’t worry, if you take their healthcare there won't be any of their system left there, there will just be their special brand of chaos there.
(English is a laugh eh)
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
WE
Ste the , 'bad guys'
We might never be seen as , "the good guys " again
West_of_West@piefed.social · 2 pts · 244d
Too bad, you get "boots on the ground".
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 2 pts · 244d
Best we can do is more gun violence
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 244d
OK healthcare and Cuba. Just you know, for vacation.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 244d
"if I were to give you free healthcare, ok not free... lightly subsidised healthcare would you stop asking about the Epstein list and about all those kids I raped?" Tick one answer below:
(A) Yes.
(B) No, keep going to war and doing other shit to distract us!
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 244d
Option 3:
[REDACTED]
vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 244d
Mariah Carrey has entered the chat.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Where do we meet in the streets? My shoes are on
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 243d
Get invaded by Canada, Cuba or Greeland (Denmark) and you'll get first class healthcare (you'll have to give up your guns though). Get invaded by Mexico or Venezuela and the situation is a bit complicated, but you at least get basic medical care for free.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 244d
Too bad there isn't a party in this country that wants healthcare.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 244d
I recall one party trying really hard to improve things, and the other trying really hard to make sure they could still use healthcare to punish people
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
I recall that party finding just enough no votes like they always do. No party wants healthcare.
If democrats supported healthcare with a quarter of the tenacity with which they support netanyahu, we would have free healthcare for everyone in this country.
FishFace@piefed.social · -4 pts · 244d
I'm blocking you because you post too much politics to what I think should be non political communities. Bye.