A reasonable solution has always been the “medicare for all” concept: just lower the eligibility age by a couple of years every year. Going from 65 to 0 would have taken just over thirty years, and if this had been implemented in the '90s when it was first suggested we’d have universal healthcare by now. Hilary Clinton was lauded for pushing for universal healthcare when her husband was president, but apparently she wanted instant universal healthcare and fought the “medicare for all” contingent. I don’t think she was as responsible for bad shit as is often made out, but it’s pretty clear that she didn’t help in this case.
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atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What’s really weird to me is that there are already at least two federal universal healthcare systems in the US covering some 3.5 million people but for some reason we still can’t figure this out.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 week ago
ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Well, to be fair they keep making cuts to the VA and then it’s had bad pr for as long as I can remember
In seriousness, nothing radicalized me more than when I finally got into the VA system and suddenly my medical and mental care needs were being taken care of with no cost to me. It makes me so angry that people have to be seriously injured in the military just to have full and free access to care