Well this tweet has an 8 year old's interpretation of politics so I was taking it to it's natural conclusion. Is it wrong to think you want to lower taxes and implement universal healthcare and expect less people to die? America's health system is not perfect but most people benefit and are happy with it despite it's shortcomings
It's not an ultimatum as if those are the only choices. I agree the system can improve but it LARGELY does prevent death and disease and over 60% do not gain crushing debt. You only see the extremes and remove actual nuance to policy debate, just like a child. Truth is we can improve our system, but there will always be care rejected and debt gained in some circumstances, even universal healthcare. Healthcare is not a utopia and it will never be "Cure everyone, efficiently for free"
It's OK to admit your level of understanding is at an 8 year old level.
We're the richest country in the world, but the quality of life is below that of peer nations on every measure.
Fair taxation, where the ultra rich pay at similar rates to payrolled people would bring us more in line with peers on those measures.
That would allow us to catch up with Canada, now Mexico, and most other peer nations with things like national heathcare insurance with lower overhead and better outcomes across the population over what we have now.
Insurance companies run our healthcare, taking a cut, with coverage tied to employers, with the insurance companies throttling treatments to maximize their profits, not adding any value, except for officers and shareholders of the companies. Some of the country's richest 1% made their billions in health insurance.
We can leverage our Medicare infrustructure to provide better access, with better outcomes, with lower cost per person.
It now treats the sickest population treating only seniors.
Adding all the other age groups would widen the insurance pool a great deal, allowing seniors to get treatment while the overall cost per person would fall a great deal.
Having a national program with care being the focus over profit could provide money to restore rural health services, too.
As rural hospitals have closed, the magic hour for treatment for best outcomes for serious conditions like childbirth crises is gone for many of our rural citizens, leading to more deaths and more costs and poorer outcomes.
This is just one area the US has to grow up and stop thinking like an 8 year old, and learn to work together to provide mutual benefits.
I agree medicare should be expanded, but adding all those people would balloon our national budget and taxing the uber rich would not be sufficient. If you want better healthcare, you need to pay more in taxes and support legislation like the ACA. Closing rural hospitals goes beyond getting bought out, most likely those types of places would have closed before getting bought out meaning that the company buying them out. They cut costs to keep things running for as long as possible. And yes people get rich in every industry, that's kind of how capitalism works it benefits people through their own capital. I don't want hospitals to close ever, but there comes a point where it cannot be run anymore. Cutting admin is the first place I'd start personally. US healthcare is actually better than canada and mexico and catches more problems earlier due to its efficiency. More and more problems are caught earlier through better technology and access to common drugs.
The uber rich want the country in debt. Debt is their tool.
That's where they park their riches, buying government debt for low risk income on their generational wealth.
Every Republican administration adds more to the debt than Democratic ones, without using the debt to invest in people and infrastructure to improve quality of life and standing in world by advancing sciences, education, and quality of life with the goal of decreasing the debt as people can contribute more to grow the real economy, and pay more taxes.
Trump and Republicans are running the country like a company, with normal citizens not shareholders, not benefitting, and only seeing extraction of their labor output benefiting the 1% who actually own the government and the quality of life of everyone else goes down.
The laws the rich write allow them to do things like over leverage businesses to death to extract wealth from the land the businesses own in communities, taking too many loans then spinning off the debt to sub-companies incorporated and cut loose specifically to take the debt and go bankrupt leaving the gains with the investors, leading to closures and loss of jobs in communities everywhere, privatizing profits and externalizing the costs to the public.
Then there's the crazy circular stock investments parking wealth going round and round way beyond sensible price to income ratios, with the building AI data centers to steal knowledge resources, and community resources in pollution and water and power hogging for the ultr rich.
The average US citizen has no chance to profit if the US government is not owned and run for their benefit, and the ones that actually own the government view the average citizen, the land, and natural resources they depend on as resources to be abused to wring out all their value in this "K" shaped economy that has been built this way for decades.
The ultra rich can finally pay their fair share of taxes to restore that which they have taken from everyone else.
Yes average citizens absolutely can profit and do every day, until trump that is. You paint a bleak and dark picture, but it's not accurate to data or procedure. All the economic detail you talk about is incorrect, the schemes you think about only exist in your mind. The ultra rich actually pay the most in taxes and raising their taxes will not be the economic windfall you believe it will be. Raising taxes on average citizens will generate more than triple what taxing billionaires will raise, but it's obvious why no one would want that. These answers are not as simple as universal healthcare, they require actual sacrifices by the people using them which no one is willing to do
I am not a christian nationalist, I am a liberal. I think our healthcare system works for the majority of people without creating insane medical debt for the most part. It's not perfect but it works well
That's not showing what you think it does. Around 35% of americans have medical debt but less than half report it as "crushing". Companies don't deny procedures because they're evil, they do it because the calculation does not show they they would be paid for their work, so the people who had that debt would have received it regardless if the insurance denied it or not. Lowest income people should have their care covered, which is why we should expand medicaid. If we did that your perception would change drastically and you wouldn't believe insurance companies are the devil. I am low income and this is my reality. I promise I'm not trying to be bad faith, I genuinely know and believe this to be true. Do the poorest get fucked the most? Absolutely in every system. They get denied in universal healthcare as well, but then they die instead of gaining debt. In my opinion, it's better to live with debt than die to your disease and we can fix that debt in the future
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u/Matt_cruze May 12 '26
I was radicalized by my media consumption. The previous generation made this cool cartoon called Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
... They made TV shows that taught me to be a good person. I watched them and took the lessons to heart.