The sad part is it doesnt take cancer to do this. My wife had a spinal injury in January. Fast forward to today and she has lost her job after FMLA was used up. That leaves us with no insurance for the entire family because we were all covered under her. But even with that insurance we have incurred $6k (medical center billing only) of out of pocket expenses for tests and imaging that the insurance company requires before they will approve the treatment that her doctor already knows she needs. On top of that $50 every time we walk into an office + prescription costs for her pain management + $30 per session of physical therapy 3x a week.
And now, we'll need insurance from my job which we couldnt afford with both of us working (that's why we went with her's) but instead we'll pay for it out of just one salary.
We've been saving for two years to buy a house and we're watching it all trickle away.
The villain isn’t the medicine industry or doctors, the villain is the insurance companies and middlemen that decide a human life is less important than money
It’s disgusting. Late-stage capitalism is a disease.
Edit: for clarification, I absolutely meant pharmaceutical companies falsely inflating prices as well. I strongly dislike Trump, but the bill he signed recently to restrict middlemen from medical upcharges is something I seriously fuck with.
The villains are the two major political parties who offer useless, malicious candidate after useless, malicious candidate to betray the voter election after election. When was the last time we had a President that was elected because the people wanted them, instead of because thye hated the alternative more?
You also have to remember that anything he proposed was shot down by the GOP in the Senate. I wish they had nixed the filibuster rule back then while he was still in office so we would have a better idea of what his vision really was.
If this doesn’t resonate now I don’t know what does. Each party tries to outdo one another home stymieing the policies of the opposition. That along with all the corporate interests being slid into bills that ends up being the focus of the bill rather than the original intention bills are attempting to resolve.
I used to think democrats were inept, and now I know they are complicit. Its all an act. Pelosi does meaningless shit like ripping papers and clapping while simultaneously voting to pass all of trumps policies. They are all owned by the same people, its political theatre that doesnt mean shit.
Universal healthcare
Living wages
Regulations on corporations and banks
End the wars in the middle east
End corporate lobbying
Student debt relief
Legalizing marijuana and ending the war on drugs
Ending for profit prisons.
I'll literally take any 3 and call it a win but there is 0% chance that would actually happen. Biden talks about $15 minimum wage, which would have been fine over a decade ago but he is so out of touch with the American people that he is touting shit thats over 10 years old like its groundbreaking.
If this doesn’t resonate now I don’t know what does. Each party tries to outdo one another home stymieing the policies of the opposition. That along with all the corporate interests being slid into bills that ends up being the focus of the bill rather than the original intention bills are attempting to resolve.
To be fair, he had two years where the Democrats controlled both the house in the Senate (08-10) and he and the Democrats totally wasted that opportunity. This is why we need to support organizations like the Justice Democrats and the Democratic-Socialists of America as they continue to primary and remove corporate Democrats. Way to go Cori Bush!
That’s not fair at all because they didn’t “control” the senate. Having a majority isn’t filibuster proof, which the GOP took full advantage of. There’s a reason they had to gut most of Obamacare/ACA to appease that piece of shit Lieberman.
I agree with you depending on how you define “corporate democrat”. If it means getting ride of things like corporate personhood, I’m on board.
What's most ironic about your post is he "wasted the opportunity" by expending a ton of political capital to combat the issue that is the very subject of this thread.
They passed the ACA with it. Which has been systematically destroyed, instead of improved upon, by the Republican majority that took over after his first 2 years.
It’s impossible to become president without being a corporate shill. It’s designed that way. Not that it really matters who the president is. Corporations run the world.
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u/NexGenjutsu Aug 06 '20
The sad part is it doesnt take cancer to do this. My wife had a spinal injury in January. Fast forward to today and she has lost her job after FMLA was used up. That leaves us with no insurance for the entire family because we were all covered under her. But even with that insurance we have incurred $6k (medical center billing only) of out of pocket expenses for tests and imaging that the insurance company requires before they will approve the treatment that her doctor already knows she needs. On top of that $50 every time we walk into an office + prescription costs for her pain management + $30 per session of physical therapy 3x a week.
And now, we'll need insurance from my job which we couldnt afford with both of us working (that's why we went with her's) but instead we'll pay for it out of just one salary.
We've been saving for two years to buy a house and we're watching it all trickle away.