Democrats. End First Past The Post voting. Introduce competition into the electoral process. FREE voters ability to choose.
But I guess that isn’t profitable enough for some.
Nothing lasts forever…
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theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Hey, Americans, nothing stops your Democrat-run blue states from improving your healthcare.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
These sound like commitments you guys should be asking of the Democrats.
Bacano@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’ve been asked. Request was denied.
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s certainly harder to do on a state level. There is no inter-state border control. Doing single payer on a state level is likely to bring in the worst cases from at least neighboring states.
California might do it, but they have a few big advantages. First, their population is high enough that they can absorb a little cross state immigration without hitting the balance too hard. Second, the states near them tend to be more sparsely populated, unlike the east coast.
Basically you’re looking at only California and New York if you want to do it on a state level. And they’re both going to face huge lobbying against it.
If this is something you want to get done, it’s got to have a lot of public support. And if you’re able to gather that much public support, why not just do it federally? It works better that way anyway.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Cause the whole point is that we can’t do anything federally but can at the state level.
Dragon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Capital flight.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Out of California, New York, Massachusetts? Lol, yea right.
Dragon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Maybe. It’s worth trying.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Why? UHC is cheaper than the current system. You wouldn’t need any extra taxes.
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Really shows me how traumatized I am by United Health Care when I see UHC and it immediately brings them to mind and not Universal. I had to put in some work to understand that Acronym
Dragon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s only cheaper if you consider current healthcare costs. It would require tax increases, and under current progressive tax models, those would be disproportionately high for the upper class, for whom the increase would not offset the elimination of their healthcare premium.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
No, the sum of all premiums paid by all Americans is way more than is required. You could make it a flat tax and it’d still be cheaper.
The tax increase is more than offset by the cost of premiums.
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah we need to deflate the disproportionately high pricing of the health care caused by insurance as well, if we could get it at the national level we could eliminate a lot of the back office overhead, and then maybe negotiate a revisit of the master charge list so that Tylenol in hospital isn’t something crazy like $250 dollars a dose. State by state this would probably be much more difficult.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, Jersey is nicely blued, but beholden to big pharma, and I think messing with healthcare hits too close to home. Governor race is next year though and so hopefully this issue stays hot.
regdog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Nothing” you say?
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Like, no Republicans…
vga@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I could be wrong, but it seems to me that decision-makers all over the planet are absolutely horrified at the idea of making any sweeping changes whatsover to health care system. Because they fear the very real possibility that they will cause masses of deaths due to complications during the transition and then that will be their legacy.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The healthcare doesn’t need to change. Just how it is funded.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
massachusetts did it and it works great; not as good as single payer, sure, but better than the alternative.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Is this a reference to Romneycare or did they improve upon that?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
that’s a bit of a misnomer since it was passed by the overwhelmingly democratic statehouse while romney fought it the entire time
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Sorry, I italicized it now. Anyone who uses that name, uses it in jest. The funniest part was during the ACA thing and him acting clueless.