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This meme is full of shit:
First Biden term: Increased health benefits for veterans, lowered insurance premiums for people who sign up through ACA, opened special enrollment resulting in 2.5 million Americans signing up for insurance, lowered the cost of insulin, streamlined ACA applications, removed medical coverage caps for children, increased transparency in pharmaceutical pricing, investing 2.5 billion in mental health, expanded telehealth across the nation, especially for rural communities.
The American healthcare system sucks, and Biden has made definite significant improvements to make it suck less for tens of millions of people in just a few years.
Actually, you're totally wrong. Healthcare in US is private and making access to private healthcare easier doesn't solve any real problems. It just pumps more money into insurance companies and private hospitals. The healthcare expenditure is still raising (and is highest in the world with worst results than in other countries), medical bills are still growing (including out of pocket costs), people have more and more debt and insurance companies are doing great on the stock market. And this is exactly what Biden wants: preserve the status quo and pump more money into private healthcare companies. The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans want to cut government spending and make individuals pay directly to the private sector (so they can charge even more) while Democrats want to tax people and pump money into private sector through ACA (in a more controlled way). That's it.
When people say 'healthcare' they mean 'system without huge out of pocket costs and crashing debt', not 'a bit cheaper private insurance'.
Boy are you nominally correct but entirely wrong on sentiment, clarity and motivation.
My previous comment, about American healthcare being terrible, disclaims your ostensibly argumentative position and is a review of having used the American healthcare system 15 years ago and not having used it since because of how terrible it is.
I am not advocating for using the American healthcare system, I am correcting the incorrect opinion that Biden is not focusing on health care, while accessible and affordable healthcare is a primary concern of the Biden administration that he has significantly addressed with executive support about a dozen times in his first term.
Since Americans keep voting for and buying into the private health care system, Biden is making the option American citizens are choosing and American corporations are pushing, more affordable and accessible.
His administration is doing the best they can with what American citizens choose to pay for and American corporations choose to provide.
That's an interesting take but one that I completely disagree with. No one is voting for the current system. You may believe that people voted for Biden because he promised to keep the current system. I believe they voted for him despite that. Most Americans do support single payer/public option healthcare, it's just impossible for them to get it in the current system (I explained why in the previous comment).
I don't know about OP but I'm not saying Biden ignores healthcare. I'm saying he is not delivering what most people want: a public option. People want new system while Biden gives them more of the old one. That's why people complain.
Yes, your non-concerns are my non-concerns as well.
The OP is what I have a problem with and what my comments are addressing,, the incorrect blaming of Biden for a legacy private healthcare system, especially when it has been a primary focus of Biden's administration to correct as much as it can within the contemporary system.
Biden has done amazing work in less than four years to give tens of millions of people affordable and accessible health care, as well as working on ACA.
Americans are voting within the two-party system within the current American for-profit medical infrastructure, and neither of these two parties want badly enough to change the contemporary health care system.
While it is impossible to get quality, affordable health care in the current American system without being born into it or getting lucky, it is very simple to go abroad for the purpose of medical tourism.
Flights anywhere in the world are a couple hundred dollars, and healthcare is easily half of what it is in the states while achieving a similar medical outcome, and often even cheaper, so you're saving hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars easily with any non-urgent operation.
This may not be as convenient as other services Americans expect, but as they are living within and paying into an exploitative health care system, it is what many Americans are looking for.
Less money, less time, equitable healthcare.
Ok, I get your point. You're right, complaining about Biden not reforming healthcare system when from the very beginning it was clear that's not his objective is unfounded.
Close, Biden provided a better healthcare at an affordable price that people were asking for instead of providing a new health care that people were not asking for.
"if you don't like it, then leave!" is not a good campaign pitch.
Phew, good thing nobody is saying that.