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'It’s Not Radical to Believe You Should Have Healthcare': El-Sayed Hits Back at Trump, GOP Attacks
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There's like a million and a half or more pieces of evidence that this country is at a minimum bordering on the edge of being cooked, and the Medicare For All / Healthcare For All topic is definitely in there.
In a nearby county, there's a hospital that will almost certainly close once the Medicare cuts take effect. It's a well-known thing. Only hospital in that county. Next closest hospitals for most residents are 20 - 30 miles (30 - 50 km) further away, which translates to at least an additional 20 minutes for emergency transport.
We're out there trying to make people aware of the situation, and decided to have a "protest" which was basically just holding up signs along the main road. Some people had signs like "Medicaid for all" or "healthcare for all", things like that. I know of at least 3 passers by who shouted out their windows some variation of "How are we going to pay for it?"
Honestly, just vile and willfully ignorant people exist in this world. Irredeemably evil. And you know they'll be the first ones whining on TV when their son or wife or daddy died because they didn't make it to the hospital in time.
Really, I hope charismatic progressives can help change enough minds that the evil cowards against the greater good no longer pull the strings because those people are such shits that they won't even stop to have a respectful conversation that might actually answer the question they posed about how to pay.