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Yes he hasn’t signed on wanting Schumer to be replaced.

Either has AOC.

That’s it IMO. That’s the death of it all right there.

I really wish Bernie would enter the presidential as an independent. Not necessarily as the presidential pick but maybe as VP, given his age. Although if you see how the annoying orange has been doing recently I think Bernie could take over even in 4 years from now and be better.

Third party won't work in a FPTP system.

We can pass RCV in local elections across the country, but progressive Dems need to work within the party lines to get shit done.

And he is a 3rd party: Democratic Socialist.

Americans are too stupid to vote for a 3rd party and they're too stupid to implement any kind of ranked choice voting.

We all suffer because of our collective stupidity, and rich people continue to profit off of it.

Oh, yeah. Bernie Sanders achieved nothing. What a wonderfully well grounded take. Not delusional at all. 🙄

The biggest problem with leaving it up to the states is that the party that is always harping on about states' rights is a bunch of disingenuous liars who immediately start restricting states' rights the second the state doesn't do what they want.

I’m thinking that the US needs to go back to A/B testing.

Like the Civil War?

Because insurance doesn’t work like a normal product or good.

What ends up happening is they charge as much as they possibly can. The book “an American sickness” explains all the problems if you’re interested.

The ACA was never going to be great. It was the best that could get passed.

So insurance companies have to pay back out to their insured 85% of all money they collect each year. Been that way since the 1970's.

What this means is that they WANT medical costs to be as high as possible. 15% of a $2,000 ambulance ride is a lot more than 15% of a $500 ambulance ride.

So the insurance companies have spent decades forcing hospitals to increase costs (charge more or we'll make your hospital out of our network and no one will come to your hospital).

What this means is that as long as insurance companies exist, there isn't really a "compete on costs" possibility. They're already paying back out 85%. At most they might be able to make things 5% cheaper. There's no competition because there's no real areas to cut costs, by design.

The only fix is to eliminate insurance all together and go single payer, or to legally force hospitals to drop all their billing costs down to levels on par with the rest of the world, and both those options will be fought tooth and nail by insurance companies, since one would make their business disappear and the later would make their 15% cut for profits and overhead vastly smaller.

well because 3 times the premium cost is still far below the cost of surgery. i am currently recovering from the removal of a cyst in my jaw that ate half my jaw leaving bone barely 3 playing cards thick in some areas. there was nothing i could have done to avoid it. the surgery too make the marsupilisation to drain the area alone was $3500, with only pain numbing. still awaiting the final surgery cost, but the anastegeologist is $1500 that i have to pay. and the stitches from my mandolin accident costs me an additional $1500.

this is ALL what i have to pay, while i have silver level coverage