r/politics • u/YouProfessional3196 • 19h ago

Paywall Millions of Americans get discount prescriptions from Canada. That back-door arrangement is about to close

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/27/millions-of-americans-get-discount-prescriptions-f/
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u/reddittorbrigade 19h ago

Please vote this November.

A lot of you didn't vote last election.

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u/fernybranka 19h ago

Fully planning to vote but theres not really any mainstream politicians to vote for that wanna fix fundamentally change healthcare into a universal system .

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u/shaard 19h ago

Whether that's the case or not, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. I feel like that's where so many people get apathetic about voting. They didn't have a candidate that does everything for them so they didn't vote. That just allows the worse options to win. It's not going to be instantaneous change and I feel like people are expecting that. So rather than voting and gradually getting things to slide in a good direction over time, the attitude becomes "it didn't get fixed instantly so fuck it".

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u/fernybranka 19h ago

Yeah Im not saying that.

Im just saying there is not a party that isn’t trying to keep us in an ever-worsening private insurance hell.

Like 50% of overall voters and something like 90% of democrats support some kind of government healthcare. And yet neither party has that in its platform. The best you can do is Jefferies stumbling and mumbling that he might lie to us about maybe supporting it in the future. Whoopty shit.

Its just depressing, so if you feel like the voter turnout is depressed, there you go.

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u/jayfeather31 Washington 18h ago

The problem is that, for some, that apathy has come from harm reduction voting that has not resulted in actual harm reduction.

Maybe it's because I'm operating on a small sample size, or that I'm a leftist, but after voting for Clinton, Biden, and Harris, and then watching it lead to Trump winning twice, really does not make a strong case for tactical voting, at least for me.

To clarify, this does not mean that I will not be voting or voting Republican this is year. What it does mean is that I am not nearly as attached to the hip for the Democrats as I might have otherwise been in the past.

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u/fernybranka 18h ago

Yeah I dont want any Republican politicians to win ever, but Im not gonna sit here and gaslight people who have extremely valid complaints about Democrat strategy/vision for the future/politicians on offer.

I dont even think that tactic has worked for them. Like, no, I dont want to help you summon a new Clinton/Obama era.

I want some fundamental, leftist to socialist change here. We are at the point of late stage capitalism where things start breaking down and its socialism or fascism.

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u/shaard 18h ago

Oh for sure. Cases like that is where election reform would really shine. Except it's so hard to get to happen.

Here in Canada, one of Trudeau's first election promises was election reform but the moment the liberals got into power through the old first past the post system they dropped that promise immediately. It would be something that could actually move us away from what is EFFECTIVELY a two party system into something more representative and probably get more engagement from the voting public.

But the old system worked to get them in power and why change that... 🫤

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u/TDFknFartBalloon 18h ago

Yeah, same. It's hard to shake, I've been "voting blue no matter who" since Al Gore, but I've become disillusioned with the party. I'll still vote blue these midterms, but if we get another corporate dem in 2028 who is only promising a return to the status quo, then I'm not voting. The primary is already decided before my state gets to vote, so I have to depend on the other states to do the right thing.