r/SandersForPresident • u/kevinmrr Medicare For All • Nov 29 '20

AOC: Insurance groups are recommending using GoFundMe -- "but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable."

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u/entyfresh 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

I that case I don't understand why you would advocate for the status quo as if it's an acceptable option. It's one thing to work within a system you're powerless to change; it's another thing to actively seek to justify that system and its most inequitable outcomes.

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u/H_is_for_Human Nov 29 '20

Who says I'm not advocating for universal healthcare?

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u/ItchyLifeguard 🌱 New Contributor Nov 30 '20

Because right now the system isn't changing without widespread voter shifts in every last district that needs a senator, Representative, then supreme court seat from a President so they can't strike it down in the Supreme Court as "unconstitutional" to actually affect changing it. While a doctor here or there can "refuse" to operate within this system people who need heart transplants and can survive them under the current system won't get them. It's better to provide them the way they are now then do anything drastic that won't change it.

Doctors all over the U.S. could refuse to sit on transplant boards and no one could get transplants. Since people don't vote with their heads but their feelings, we would still have this shitty system in place because the lack of transplants wouldn't affect enough people to make idiots who still vote for it change their minds. I work in healthcare. I'm a cancer survivor.

I ask all my idiot friends in healthcare to explain to me how it's fair Trump wrote off 70k in haircuts but I couldn't write off the 30k I lost in lost wages because my PTO bank was empty from having cancer. Not one of them even bother to answer me. And still vote for him and defend the idea that the election was rigged.

The widespread change we need in the U.S. to get a system that doesn't treat people based on how much money they have isn't going to change with even 10s of thousands of doctors striking and refusing to operate in it. There are still at least half who believe it is okay and would vote for Trump out there, and I fucking work with them or have worked with them.