Reminder that every time conservatives are given power chaos ensues and everyone's stress levels (and cost of living) skyrocket.
Every. Fucking. Time.
The only way you'll ever give me free health-care is to pry it into my cold, dead hands.
I'm be real, and ain't nobody wanna hear this but...
Even with full health insurance, most hospitals and doctors in my 50 mile radius area either do not accept patients or are booked out to 5 months. I really think we have a educational problem that's leading to not enough qualified doctors. I also see a lot of "Nurse Practitioners" and actual MDs that are running rounds at multiple area hospitals.
Not only does DJT know that Democrats won't pass Universal Healthcare (setting them up for failure), but doing so would lead to cutting corners on actually educating qualified doctors, possibly leading to more harm than good.
IMO the bigger issue is education, planning, and prioritizing. We (as a Nation) can't go all in on Universal Healthcare without planning and prioritizing education and ensuring that our system can handle the flood of new patients.
They are booked out, because the insurance makes them go thru mutliple loops, wasting an insane amount of time. My dentist had to make 4 separate appointments for a root canal/crown, because the insurance required proving each sub-procedure, with x-ray for each one of them, that otherwise wouldn't be required. and I could've had it done in two.
You're really falling for the fascist lie of "people are getting dumber"
I don't understand why we need a plan.
When cheif of the fire department needs more people; They hire more.
When the chief of police needs more deputies; They hire more.
When the chief of medicine needs more nurses... Wait we don't have a cheif of medicine? Hu. Werid...
Education isn't the bottleneck, residency is. Plenty of qualified doctors coming out of med school that don't get residency, so they have to try again next year (and compete against fresh grads).
Raising residency limits is, of course, unpopular because it means more doctors, which means less demand, so less pay to cover med school loans...and nobody wants med school to cost less. Least of all the people buying up those loans. Read: rich folk that live on investments.
The rate at which new doctors are trained in the USA has historically been bottlenecked by the number of residency program slots available. Hospitals financially benefit from each resident they employ, but not as much as they do from adding other roles, instead (such as nurses). Also, it is not trivial to create a new residency program or expand an existing one (accreditation requirements, other fixed costs, etc.). This is why 25 % of USA physicians are immigrants. The Republicans have also made it more expensive to get loans for medical school, which will discourage some people from going to med school in the future, although the insufficient supply of residency slots might still end up being the bottleneck.
But even if we did not increase the supply of doctors, moving to Single Payer would still benefit us by reducing cost. I don't think Single Payer would need to be coupled to increasing the supply of physicians.
Damn, it's a more multi-faceted issue than I had guessed. The U.S. sure has a long uphill battle ahead...
The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA is healthcare. At this point, what is worse, losing everything to a massive dumpster fire, US healthcare, waiting for treatment or croaking because your health insurance sucks shit.
The hardest part of American healthcare is buying the tickets to Europe or Mexico for the affordable operation.
Edit: wait, I can see the tsunami coming, I made the mortal mistake of commenting on American affairs. Fuck this shit I'm out.
You can open the floodgates but if a plan is not in place to displace the water it'll overcome the system.
The for-profit system is also already slow as balls. It chugs along fine at a snails pace.
To say there's not a educational shortage on degrees that take up to 8+ years in a country that is already facing an educational deficit I think is the real irrational. Planning is an important step that shouldn't just be left as an afterthought.
Ha, Democrats can't even pass higher minimum wage with a house majority. Even when it was Biden's platform.
Not one standalone bill. They had two years of a majority.
There will be no universal healthcare in the USA until Amazon and Meta decide that we should have universal healthcare.
To be fair, the Democrats had control of Congress during an earlier term too (2009-2011), and in that term they passed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). When was the last time the Republicans passed anything beneficial at all, let alone as beneficial as the ACA?
Until medical costs are capped, ain't gonna happen and the shithole US healthcare system will expand.
That's literally the point of Universal Healthcare provided by gov, they force medical costs to go down by going to the drug companies "well if you don't reduce price, we won't buy it, and we're the only shop in the whole country"
Look at the price Germany pays for FLUOROURACIL VITANE 50ml - €3.66
Same exact drug, same exact dosage in USA - $15.99
(Looked up a price comparison and copypasted the first price I found)
Are those ads in the corner of the screen? What's going on there lol?
I thought it was a random pile of salsa, but it's a random pile of coffee and cereal just hanging out with the stock ticker.
I get paid every time I say Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr.
I just assumed that they were on his desk and would be related to some kind of grocery prices discussion.
Why are Democrats never as cool as Republicans say they are? Like they controlled the entire government under Obama and the best we got was making it illegal to not have health insurance.
Sometimes, I wonder if Trump is actually a leftist who try his best to destroy the US by being as right-wing as he can.
Conspiracy Theory: Accelerationist Trump
This reminds me very much of Talladega Nights: "If I let you win, how am I gonna win?"
This is from the 2024 campaign. Which he won, bafflingly.
Sure he did, same way Bush won Florida when his brother was in charge of the count.
Republicans always make Democrats sounds way cooler than they really are
They have more faith in the democratic party than I do LMAO
"EVEN THE BROWNS???"
- His fanbase.
Here's the part I don't understand.
In 2025, approximately 22 million Americans received subsidies through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace to help pay for their health insurance. That's millions of working Americans who depend on these subsidies to afford coverage.
So who exactly is this statement supposed to appeal to? A significant number of Trump's own constituents rely on healthcare.gov to purchase their health insurance. Without those subsidies, many of them are going to face the same financial reality I would.
Without my subsidy, my health insurance would cost approximately $1,800 a month. That's $21,600 a year just to have health insurance, before paying a single dollar in deductibles or copays.
That's absolute insanity.
Voting against your own interests is a common thing that happens in democracies.
Man... Yeah, you're absolutely right. That really is a matter of perspective.
I think what I struggle to understand is how people can intentionally vote against their own interests under the guise of familiarity. Have people genuinely been conditioned to believe that things that benefit society as a whole, and them as individuals, are somehow detrimental to them personally, while those same policies are somehow detrimental to the profits of large corporations?
I don't know, man. It's difficult to wrap my head around how effectively people can be convinced to work against their own interests.
Humans are terrible.
So who exactly is this statement supposed to appeal to?
Left leaning voters specifically. He knows Democrats won't be able to bring forth Universal Healthcare in a term or maybe even 2. It's just to rile leftists and set up Democrats for a failure he knows they won't be able to commit to.
So he's conceding that Republicans are going to lose the elections this year and he wants to throw egg into the face of Democrats when they don't provide universal healthcare?
That's... No. No man. Leftists have nothing to do with any of this.
It's something close to 80% of all Americans have their insurance either provided for them through Medicare and Medicaid or the workplace the other 20% is mostly through the healthcare act and the others are paying for themselves or don't have it at all.
The extreme vast majority of the people that he is referring to already have some form of healthcare assistance nobody is going to buy this.
So who is he saying this to? Who's supposed to look at this and go oh my God not free healthcare!?
he wants to throw egg into the face of Democrats when they don’t provide universal healthcare?
Yes, absolutely. That's just the kind of person he has been so far. Ignorant leftists blame Democrats for not backing Universal Healthcare, DJT points out that that's a possibility if Democrats get majority (which is absolutely is not), it's a simple ploy is all. DJT throws things at the wall constantly to see what sticks.
Look at it creating a buzz here. Surely it's making it's rounds on Reddit, Facebook, and X as well. Unless it's a narrative that him and his cronies keep pushing, it'll be done talked about by tomorrow.
If it does end being a narrative they keep pushing, it makes Democrats look weak as it's not something they can commit to even though it's something a majority of American would want.
You actually make a very strong case here. You might be right, and I have to admit, it’s just crazy to me that this seemingly senile old man could be capable of such a high level of strategic thinking.
I’ve lived my entire life in this country and lived through the administrations of numerous presidents, but I’ve never seen anything quite like this. This entire administration is operating in ways that feel completely unprecedented in modern American history.
I have never seen the federal government treat immigrants with such abject disdain and discrimination. The racism and sexism are so blatant, so openly displayed, that you would think they’d be enough to turn the American people against this administration. And yet, somehow, those very things seem to energize its supporters rather than alienate them.
I genuinely hope they push things far enough that the American people finally begin to push back in a meaningful way. But then again, we’ve already seen massive protests, and it often feels like they accomplish very little. At some point, you have to wonder what it will take for people to draw a line and demand something better from their government.
When Trump uses words like "we" and makes speeches, he is only referring to his donors and henchmen.
We aren't even a thought for him, not even his cult
There are people, who are afraid, free healthcare will lead to people not taking care of their health. That's how they tried to astroturf the "pro-paid healthcare" movement in Hungary.
Which is BS of course, expensive healthcare makes people skip on prevention which leads to worse health and more expensive treatments. You just have to look to the US to see that.
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