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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Like all of neoliberalism, the last five decades of health care debate was a deal between the right and left to have social goods distributed through increasingly powerful corporations instead of directly through the state. Progressives got something close to universal health insurance 'coverage,' while the right got a privatized system with no limits on corporate power and no price transparency."

-Matt Stoller, #Obamacare Is Cooked. What's Next?
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-obamacare-is-cooked

Monopoly Round-Up: Obamacare Is Cooked. What's Next?

With big health insurance hikes coming, another health care crisis is here. Where's all the money going? And what comes now? Plus Argentina votes for the Trump bailout, Warner is for sale and more...
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Chuckles ❤️🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦❤️
@celeduc@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic oh wow, that palacial Univerity of Miami hospital and that quote: "We are growing and growing!" You know what else grows and grows unchecked? Cancer.

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Comrade elronxenu
@elronxenu@mastodon.cloud replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic This is truly horrifying.

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Yet another Josh :donor:
@crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic

The crazy part about the ACA or Obamacare:

In 1995, Hillary Clinton as first wife, proposed universal health care. She was reviled with "government death panels" and howling by republicans.

At that time, republicans and their think tank, Heritage Foundation, proposed an alternate plan that had markets, health plans, etc.

This noname guy from Massachusetts took this plan and ran it in his state. Ever hear of the republican Mitt Romney? Yeah, that nobody.

Then Obama wanted to take Romneycare and the Heritage Foundations plan and make it national. And gee golly, howls of socialism... From a republican plan.

He instituted it, barely. But "Soshulism" screams are now regularly made. Nobody remembers the history:

The ACA was a republican plan!

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Cimeryd
@cimeryd@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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@pluralistic

This makes me think of the "kneeling for the national anthem" craze. Colin Kaepernick originally sat for it, got some hate. In a public debate with a vocal critic, they agreed that kneeling would get his point across while being respectful. He started kneeling. And he got more hate than ever.

The lesson is clear, if you compromise with these people, if you meet them half-way, they will run in the opposite direction to maintain distance.

Overton window shifted.

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Jargoggles
@jargoggles@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@crankylinuxuser @pluralistic
A Republican plan that was *barely* pushed through by a Democratic majority in the House and *super*majority in the Senate. Democrats had the ability to push through any legislation they wanted without any Republican interference and this is the best we got.

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Their friend, Svavar
@svavar@masto.svavar.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@crankylinuxuser @pluralistic

Why aren't people shouting more loudly than American health non-insurance companies are basically private death panels that kill people every day?

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Juliet James
@Juliet001@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@pluralistic hello

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