this is with them hamstringing the aca during the last trump administration and with the mistake of allowing one company to own multiple sectors of the industry (hostpitals and insurance and pharmacy and manufacture and provider)
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why wasn't this a headline two months ago? what has changed?
We want universal healhcare. Those who "suffer" due to lack of income (due to the insurance industry collapse) after it rolls out can talk to a therapist for low to no cost.
no!? really!? wow!!
But... but the main health insurance industry association, AHIP, says that 75% of Americans like their employer provided health insurance! Surely they can't be wrong!
/s
I mean, I generally do like my employer health insurance, but it's also genuinely a really good plan that I've largely had zero issues or outright denials. (I do sometimes have to get my doctor's office and insurance to talk to one another appropriately, but that's just as much on the doctor).
But I would gladly give up my health insurance for a nationalized healthcare system. Not even a question.
A whole 1,000 people polled too!
Wow ABC, good fucking job.
Brilliant report.
You really have your finger on the pulse or something...
Damn, ABC News, look at you out here dropping such a huge scoop on everybody. You're a credit to modern journalism ABC News and totally not a bought-and-paid-for corportate psyops firm run by republiQans for shackling the poors.
How could you tell?
That's some ace reporting. I wonder what clued them in?
One of the desk editors read about it on facepals.
How could this be?!
You mean even after Congress slapped a [$35] band-aid on the problem...checks notes...16 years ago, and have only picked away at it since then, they still want more?
Yeah, no shit.
They should be unhappy with capitalism, as this shit is just a symptom.
All Capitalists (and their minions) Are Bastards.
But nothing will change.