Heard. And that's for people with health insurance and the ability to pay deductibles / co-pays for care in the first place. Everyone else is kinda fucked.
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Puerto Rico is just the canary in the coal mine. The entire US healthcare system is on the brink of collapse.
If ever there was something that will predictably backfire on Republicans would be if they actually have Hunter Biden testify.
Br'er Rabbit was was born and raised in the briar patch.
It's a simple theology: "Me first. Fuck you. Every man for himself."
While it fits great on a bumper sticker, it's a suboptimal strategy to build an economy, nation-state, or anything really.
There were more than enough Democrats in Congress in 2008 to make that happen.
There are more than enough Democrats now to make it enough of an issue that it becomes part of the public conversation.
There are more than enough Democrats now that could make an internal party rule that prohibits Democrats from ever lobbying for pharmaceutical or insurance companies.
However, the Democratic Party is far more motivated to kneecap actual healthcare reforms than actually implement what they say they believe in.
Love making complicated, beautiful cocktails for guests. Zero interest in being a bartender at a high-end cocktail bar until / unless I retire.
Democrats are just as committed to this for-profit driven healthcare system as Republicans are. They're just a little bit more polite about it.
The US had to twist Egypt's arm to get them to accept refugees, so that doesn't explain things entirely.
The reason why neighboring states are reluctant to accept refugees is that they know they will never be able to return, and the influx of people would destabilize their own societies.
The solution isn't for other countries to start accepting refugees - it's that the Israelis need to stop murdering them.
The problem is that the Palestinians are stuck in Gaza because no one really cares about them.
Lots people across the world care about the plight of Palestinians. The US effectively bribes the ruling classes of several middle-eastern countries to prevent popular will from spilling over into open warfare to oppose Israel's treatment of the indigenous population. It's impossible to understand how Israel gets away with what it does without acknowledging this.
The issue isn't about caring ... the problem is that Palestinians, and the broader middle-east generally, are being oppressed by a western-backed settler-colonial movement.
Wasn't Gaza already surrounded before all this? It's a giant prison - it even has walls around the perimeter.
This isn't an invasion - they are resecuring the prison.
Medicare is Federally managed, Medicade is state-by-state. To qualify for Medicaid in most states you have to be at or near poverty levels of income - that's around $11k to $15,000 a year maximum in order to qualify for it.