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by kempbellt 2276 days ago
Then let's do it
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unlikely as both parties are beholden to big corps which love the idea of existential crisis (getting fired => lose insurance => medical bankruptcy) preventing normal individuals from engaging in entrepreneurship/competition/healthy lifestyles
#yang2020
Did Yang run on health care reform? Last time I read about him he was babbling about “choice” and “market” but seemed to have no real plan other than the magic of the free market. If the health care situation doesn’t change then all of UBI will be eaten up by health care soon.
> Did Yang run on health care reform?

Marginally. His plan was basically the same as Buttigieg's: Medicare for all who want it.

Of course, they never talked about how that would actually reduce your choices as employers opted to stop covering health insurance and you were stuck with the smaller Medicare provider pool.

One of the big structural advantages of the real Medicare for All plan is that it would eliminate "networks" all providers would be required to accept the M4A single-payer.

Ya, he ran specifically to decouple healthcare from employment. It's thematic with the whole financial security to pursue entrepreneurship part of the message (which doesn't work if you have to take all that money and buy health insurance for your employees)
You gotta vote then. You need to get other people to also vote for candidates who would do it. You need to convince the other sides supporters to abandon their support for the other side.

It would really help if we had a politican who was somehow electable in the primary and didn't hold policies which are deal breakers for the other sides voters. For example, on gun rights or (god forbid) abortion

Unfortunately, if you try to be pro gun in the democratic party they will eviscerate you in the primary. Just look at Bernie sanders in 2016 vs Clinton on the Brady Bill. Until we can convince republicans that the dems won't take their guns away, it's basically impossible to convince a good portion of Trumps base to abandon their support. I don't advocate for pro-life dems but if you really want republican votes you may have to at least pretend to be pro-life.

None of these are easy, but it must be done or else it's more of the same crap.