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[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Republicans: Democrats plan is a non-starter because it just kicks the can down the road and does nothing to reduce health care costs. In fact, it's likely to increase health care costs!

This is true!

Democrats: Republicans plan doesn't actually do anything at all! It just takes people's tax dollars and forces people to send at least $1000-1500/year to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. Furthermore, it encourages people to pay for useless, junk insurance!

This is also true!

Neither of these proposals would prevent or solve the health insurance death spiral (that is currently accelerating into its final phase):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_%28insurance%29

The only solution is socialized health care. Anything that relies on capitalism is doomed to failure because health care is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The important thing is that low income Americans are utterly fucked. Thank you spineless coward Democrats for selling us out, looking at you Eric Sorensen and Dick Durbin.