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Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

After a 43-day government shutdown staged to "protect healthcare," Democrats utterly capitulated. They passed a bill that doubles or triples premiums for millions, proving their performative resistance was a sham.

The working class, who endured the shutdown's misery, is now left with a devastating healthcare cost hike and the grim certainty that neither party will fight for them.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/16/shutdown-capitulation-and-austerity-how-democrats-failed-to-defend-affordable-healthcare/

#usa #uspol #democrats

Peoples Dispatch

Shutdown, capitulation, and austerity: how Democrats failed to defend affordable healthcare : Peoples Dispatch

While the Democratic Party claimed to be defending working-class people in the US, its capitulation to a Republican spending bill leaves millions facing skyrocketing healthcare costs and exposes the limits of partisan opposition in the face of billionaire-driven austerity.
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