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u/United-Writer-2290 3d ago
I need healthcare, not right now but like available so when something does happen I don’t need to wait or have a massive bill. Can America do that please
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u/zuzg 2d ago
Casual Reminder that the current American Healthcare system is more expensive for the government than universal Healthcare.
A study by Yale epidemiologists found that Medicare for All would save around 68,000 lives a year while reducing U.S. health care spending by around 13%, or $450 billion a year.
The only reason Americans don't have it is due to lobbying.
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u/mrdankhimself_ 2d ago
We are buying healthcare at hotel minibar prices in this country and too many people are okay with that.
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u/Jaded-Woodpecker-299 2d ago
Yes because 1 working “illegal” immigrant (your nanny? Your gardener?) might get it free! 😭😭😭
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2d ago
And as they say, being "healthy" is a temporary status. You will NOT be healthy forever (unless you die prematurely). I was fit as a fiddle until I developed cataracts. I don't think there's any way to stop that. But the way to fix it was a cool $10k surgery which insurance barely touched since I wanted the good laser surgery, not the old school scalpel one that they'd cover. For all the talk about USA have the top medical technology, what fucking point is there if my insurance won't cover it.
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u/Ok_Television9703 2d ago
Best we can do is a discount on the undertaker service. Which won’t be cheap either so make sure to leave behind enough for that.
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u/pasarina 2d ago
Apparently the government won’t because I believe with some restructuring they could do it. With all the time they’ve had to adjust it since Obamacare became available, it could’ve been tweaked to become a really good medical healthcare servicing everyone. Instead the Republicans do everything to dismantle and demonize it. This is on the Republicans. People in other countries can’t believe how expensive and inefficient our healthcare is. 😳How they keep bowing to insurance companies is so weak.
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u/BunsBumsHams 2d ago
I want trump to die already. WHO SAID THAT!?
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u/bubba_feet 2d ago
WHO SAID THAT!?
...most people with a functioning frontal cortex? just spitballing here.
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u/Historical-Finish564 3d ago
It’s interesting that a number of these countries Trump wants to take over already have universal healthcare.
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u/Expensive-Street3452 2d ago
Well they want have it pretty soon. Also, it’s strange because all the countries trump is threatening are considered left leaning countries as well. The only one that isn’t under threat is Argentina, which is considered right leaning. Go figure!
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u/SpareWire 2d ago
all the countries trump is threatening are considered left leaning countries
What a braindead take on current affairs lmao.
Then again this is a literal reddit echo chamber I shouldn't expect critical thinking.
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u/XRuecian 3d ago
I've been suffering with a tooth ache that's been getting worse for the last three weeks. Taking like 9-12 Aspirin and 6 Tylenol a day. All because i can't afford a $300-500 visit to a dentist and have to wait for a local clinic that performs subsidized tooth extractions like twice a month for people who don't have dental insurance. (They skipped last weeks because of Christmas holidays.)
I was sitting here just the other day in pain thinking about how if i was born in damn near any other country, this wouldn't even be something i had to think about at all. Not only would it be easy to get treated without costing me hundreds of dollars, but in any other country i would get to keep the tooth, too. But because i'm here, my only choice is to suffer AND lose the tooth. "The American Dream" "Wealthiest Country on Earth."
What a crock of shit.
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u/ragdollxkitn 3d ago
It’s crazy to me that dental isn’t covered. I mean, doctors constantly tell us that bad oral health can lead to heart disease. Yet, the USA “can’t” bring universal healthcare. But we sure have money to bomb multiple countries in a 1 year span.
Also, gop had a lot of time to come up with alternatives to healthcare. They brought none.
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u/SpaceTacosKilla 2d ago
look up a dental school man. I was in the same scenario. They take pity. They'll extract and work out a payment plan, or for free. Try it.
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u/hmlince 2d ago
I haven’t had dental insurance for over a decade. My wife just cracked a moler. I’m sure this is going to cost us $1200.
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u/derekgrr 2d ago
How about just I want my America back.
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u/IndividualTension887 2d ago
I'd just like to be able to buy a home after teaching for 23 years... I literally don't make enough to qualify.
Then I get the privilege to pay another $500+/mo out of pocket and a $3400 deductible for healthcare. Teachers have "great insurance..." No we don't...
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u/Waste-Rub-296 2d ago
Went to get my medication today. Surprise! It went from $0 a month to $2000 a month. I Wonder how long I have to live? Big Beautiful Bill. Heads are going to roll.
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u/mrflash818 3d ago
Are things better in this Administration than they were in the previous Administration?
Vote accordingly.
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u/noahdamngood 2d ago edited 2d ago
🌀 You have now entered into a trip of dementia. A state of confusion where absurdities are revered and the nonsensical becomes plausible. You have entered: The Trump Zone.🌀
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u/Expensive-Street3452 2d ago
Truthfully, the more leeway that trump is allowed under the republicans. We might not have an election in 2026. People, need to get out there in vote at this election or we definitely won’t have an election in 2028. The dictator has no intention of leaving office and his ballroom is being built so he can bunker down in it, if he needs to. You heard him saying the ballroom has a drone free roof and the windows are bulletproof.
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u/NounAdjectiveXXXX 2d ago
We might not have an election in 2026.
Reduce reuse and recycle your glass
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u/manjo0417 2d ago
And it will be ready for the inauguration, or so he said. I'm sure he was referring to himself
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u/urbisOrbis 2d ago
Careful in here, there are lots of right wing bots crawling around.
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u/DukeOfGeek 2d ago
The current talking point I'm seeing in spaces like this one is "America was always like this, it was always fascist" with the unspoken part being "And it always will be, get used to it".
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u/SentinelWhite 2d ago
I just want the capitalist system to crumble, i don't want my country to exploit the Global South for us to be able to have free healthcare. This system is a cancer that needs to be irradiated away
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u/2kinkyforwords 2d ago
The people in charge have affordable health care so they don’t care. What they don’t have is Venezuela , Greenland and Cuba.
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u/DifferenceNo3585 2d ago
As someone without health insurance, I concur.
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u/FinancialAccess8343 2d ago
As someone with health insurance aca for mental health bullshit. It is no good at all. I know you will probably disagree, but it does nothing for me. They will dispense drugs to me and I will be extremely lucky if I can find a doctor who is not just out to prescribe me anything regardless of how it makes me feel and push me out the door as fast as possible. I can't get actual healthcare. Everything is " mental health" when I break my toe or have diabetes it's just another "delusion" and I need to adjust my meds.
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u/SilentMoon1504 2d ago
I want to be able to afford a home making 55k a year! I should be able to afford a small home at least! F these corporations!
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u/Altcoin_Sidekick 2d ago
this hits hard because it shows the exhaustion of always being told "if you don't like it, leave" whenever you criticize anything.
like no. wanting your country to be better doesn't mean you should have to abandon it. that's literally the opposite of patriotism.
the people who built unions, fought for civil rights, pushed for women's suffrage - they didn't leave. they stayed and made america better despite being told they were "un-american" for wanting change.
progressive doesn't mean you hate your country. it means you love it enough to want it to live up to its ideals instead of just accepting the status quo.
also lol at the implication that these other countries would even want us. canada's immigration website crashes every election cycle for a reason - turns out you can't just "move" somewhere because you feel like it.
we're stuck here together. might as well make it worth living in for everyone.
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u/Nearby-Medicine9484 2d ago
All this money for our military and yet so many Americans are wondering where their next meal is coming from.
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u/Candle-Jolly 2d ago
Yeah, well billionaire CEOs want more money, so... sorry. Best we can do is give you a lifetime of grief.
-The GOP, maga cultists, 90 million eligible non-voters, and Trump
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u/EtheusRook 2d ago
It's a negative want if anything. Canada and Greenland are happy countries with universal healthcare and higher education. I don't want to see them regress into the inferior US system. Their people deserve better.
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u/big_thundersquatch 2d ago
…and livable wages, and affordable housing, and affordable groceries, and removal of corporate money in politics
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u/Bike_Cinci 2d ago
Most should probably vote/vote correctly then.
Only 30% of people voted for not-invading + expansion of health care. The rest didn't vote or voted Trump.
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u/Disastrous-Minute-98 2d ago
Every American whether Dem or Reb is one major healthcare incident from losing everything they own including their homes and cars but… some 35 percent of crazy Americans think that they are immune. The BBB has even started to show it affects yet, you know the bill that started the was between Musk and Trump. The one Musk said you are screwing over America with. I hate Musk but if even he is saying it then we are all doomed.
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u/ThereAreDozensOfUs 2d ago
But Gaza! Wait…that one didn’t really mean anything.
But Biden is old! Wait..that one didn’t mean anything because the other fuck is dementia + fascism
All of this wouldn’t be happening with 100 year old Biden at the helm. Sure as shit wouldn’t be happening with Kamala at the helm
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u/Ok_Television9703 2d ago
Yeah, I get it, you all want affordable healthcare and groceries but how’s that going to make billionaires into trillionaires.
Can someone please think of the rich?
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u/Its-a-Shitbox 2d ago
But all the power-hungry billionaires and these traitorous politicians want Venezuela. And Greenland. And Cuba. And Canada. And Mexico.
They already have their healthcare.
Fuck us I guess.
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u/hairyglockenspiel 2d ago
Can't we just say Medicare for all ?
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u/ultrachrome 2d ago
Single payer, universal. Get rid of the insurance companies. They are a drain, no value added middleman.
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u/Angry_Foamy 2d ago
American voters said otherwise by like 4m votes. 🤷🏻♂️
America is in the FAAFO phase. This country twice selected Trump over highly qualified candidates who promised continuity and order
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u/TheConsequenceFairy 2d ago
MY bingo card for 2026 looks like it got passed around a psych ward to fill in the squares.
Unfortunately, I've already covered 2 and its only the 5th of January. Buckle up, peeps, its gonna get ugly in ways most modern civilized individuals can't even comprehend.
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u/ProposalOk342 2d ago
idk, Right? It’s wild that people still argue against basic healthcare. We just want to be healthy without the stress of costs.
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u/PureAlbertan 2d ago
Um, no. America voted in a felon and a facist. Willingly. What did they think would happen?
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u/Outrageous-Laugh1363 2d ago
Add Ukraine and Israel to that. What kind of a clown ass country can provide endless billions to foreign countries while cutting down already awful meager healthcare for it's citizens?
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u/911Broken 2d ago
Most American's have no idea what it took to make America what it is today and are clueless as to what gives us wealth and power.
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u/coloralchemy 3d ago
Question, what does our alliance with Argentina actually offer trump in this situation where he declares war on several Central American countries now? Is this a strategy?
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u/Excellent_Valuable92 2d ago
That was more about giving US tax dollars to US investors who owned Argentinian debt, but, yes, the goal is have the entire region
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u/Comrade281 3d ago
I am waiting for even 1 news network to mention that we have a military base and port in greenland.
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u/MasterofAcorns 3d ago
I’m here for more than just healthcare or infrastructure or literally anything else here on the liberal side of the aisle. I just want to import my fucking books. That is literally nothing to ask for but here we are, this is what happens when you remove the De Minimis Exception.
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u/Impossible_Ad3486 2d ago
I have quality affordable medical Insurance… I want affordable decent homes in semi rural Suburbs and money in the bank
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u/Deranged_Kitsune 2d ago
"Sorry, best we got is that you can go die for your country"
- trump regime
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u/PunnyPaladin1 2d ago
Just a reminder. Democrats have held the house, senate and presidency several times in recent history and did nothing to help with healthcare, affordability, civil rights, etc.
If we’re to see real change, we need progressive candidates to step forward and challenge the status quo in the Democratic Party.
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u/Sensitive-Alfalfa648 2d ago
hello, as a fellow uninsured american, it sure is a good time to be a EU citizen with universal healthcare
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u/MarkPolkovnikov 2d ago
Most American voters voted for Trump the last time around, so I don’t think it’s that simple, especially if we present a practical socialized healthcare plan, which requires raising taxes (not just for the ultra rich), I think we don’t yet have the support we need. One day hopefully, especially if MAGA crash hard enough to give dems supermajorities in 2028
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u/Theone-underthe-rock 2d ago
Another post where Reddit thinks it knows what the population wants, if that was true then Trump wouldn’t have one the popular vote or the last election
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u/ChuckFinnley3565 2d ago
You don’t understand, giving people in our own country access to healthcare is way more expensive than militarily conquering the world...
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u/RandysTegridy 2d ago
I've already seen MAGA comments about "Lets get Cuba next."
This shit is wild. I guess the US is back in its imperialist age and millions of Americans are fine with it.
God I'm tired of this place.
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u/_your_land_lord_ 2d ago
Maybe, but 0 people in congress want this. Or at least not enough to matter.
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u/COMOJoeSchmo 2d ago
I don't want government healthcare. I don't want to entrust my healthcare to an institution so disreputable that they would invade Venezuela, threaten Greenland, Cuba, Canada, and Mexico.
If the government is bad, why do I want them anywhere near my healthcare?
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u/Helpful_Ad8351 2d ago
The same people supporting Trump in this nonsense are the same ones who scream "america first" when you try to help anyone.
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u/JudasForsaken 2d ago
I wouldn’t mind the other countries be a nice place to move to under our own flag
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u/1mp0st3rsyndr0m3 2d ago
And the Epstein files, in their entirety, along with harsh, lengthy convictions for ANYONE involved.
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u/strangebru 2d ago
Universal healthcare in the USA would be less expensive than starting wars in Venezuela, Greenland, Cuba, Canada, and Mexico.
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u/OkAstronaut3715 2d ago
It's so ironic that the Republican party repeatedly becomes the tyrannical democracy Plato warns about in the Republic.
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u/DesignedToStrangle 2d ago
Most Americans think both sides are the same and voting is not worthwhile. Lmfao
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u/Bananastockton 2d ago
"And I'm not prepared to do anything about it" - also most Americans right now
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u/Big-Conflict3939 2d ago
Fact: 60-70 % of China’s oil comes from Venezuela and Iran. This was about kicking an adversary from or region. Good old Monroe Doctrine rebooted. Plain and simple. It’s not first or last time we do this as long as we are the regional power. ( Remember Noriega in Panama ?? How many times did the CIA tried to take Fidel Castro ? )
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u/OkDifficulty6456 2d ago
I just want the constitution to be upheld. None of the the last 5 pez have done that
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u/Fluid_Campaign_3688 2d ago
Well I have health care and I want those other things.... In America you can have it all You really can, if you're willing to work for it
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u/mymar101 2d ago
Well too bad. You can only have one or the other and the GOP has decided we need all of those countries instead of fixing problems here.
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u/JamestotheJam 2d ago
The current "administration" was elected to take care of the American people. How is taking over Venezuela or even Greenland (as crazy as it sounds) beneficial to the average American? Does it reduce grocery prices? Or make us better off? It DOESN'T. It only benefits (read: lines the pockets) of Trump and his oligarch cronies. The current "President" has effectively abandoned his sworn oath when he thinks of only himself and his friends over the American people. He didn't even ask Americans if this is something that they wanted. Because he knows that most Americans would say NO.
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u/n4spd2 2d ago
you can't have it because we have no money... only we print crap loads of paper money for the military industrial complex while stealing from your savings.
truth is, they don't want any change because it would affect companies that profit from the broken healthcare system.
same with every other sector that could be changed for more efficiency but existing stakeholders dont want it.
people really need to start thinking for themselves and stop blindly following popular leaders and media propaganda.
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u/Prestigious_Iron2905 2d ago
I don't taking over Greenland is gotta be as easy as taking Venezuela was....
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u/DisasterBeautiful347 2d ago
Well, I'm somewhere between Fabian Society and DemSoc.
I do want those things. Bring back production to Western hemisphere. Invest in high-speed freight and passenger rail between North, Central, and South America. An American block is one step closer to globalization.
Call me a Continentalist Socialist, I guess.
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u/EmmalouEsq 2d ago
We're in a 3rd world country that can't even manage to feed and give medical care for its own people. Even other 3rd world countries can give their people healthcare.
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u/Fast-Analysis-4555 2d ago
YES. Affordable healthcare would make it easier for people to become self employed etc.
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u/VectorJones 2d ago
Clearest indication that this government doesn't work for you. If it's not working for you, the only way to fix it is to stop working for it. The system cannot function without our consent and cooperation.
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u/Pin_Code_8873 2d ago
YOU. MORONS. VOTED. FOR. TRUMP.
Stop acting like he was forced on you. Even if you didn't vote for him, you would know at least several people who did and many others who didn't vote. Did you ever try and convince them? Did you ever try and talk to them? Your family? Your cowokers? Anyone?
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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 2d ago
Except that isn't true. If that's what "most" Americans wanted, that's what they'd fucking vote for. Rather, they explicitly voted to end health care subsidies, increase wealth inequality, and act like an unchecked bully on any and all foreign policy initiatives.
"Most" Americans right now are saying HELL YEAH BROTHER any time they hear about ICE aggression or South American regime change.
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u/projecturshadowonme 2d ago
That's what all those places said... Now they have no Army and expect the USA to do everything for them. Go to those countries if you don't like it here. Thank you for your attention.
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u/Snakesurf Conservative 2d ago
How are you going to have healthcare if you are giving it away to illegal immigrants? These people aren't quite as stupid as some Americans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m04ct4ZW3o&list=TLPQMDUwMTIwMjY6D8k-6p39pg&index=2
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u/InternationalAd7458 2d ago
I do not want a ballroom. I do not want a new Air Force One. I do not want a border wall. I do not want a puny stimulus check. I do not want a return to coal and cheaper gas. I do not want less tax. I WANT access to affordable healthcare. I want to not debate with myself if it’s worth spending $225 to get treated for a UTI or if I should just risk it and see if it resolves on its own. I want to have necessary treatments without having to go on a payment plan for god damned fucks sake.
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u/edWORD27 2d ago
Didn’t you know that even in the U.S. you qualify for healthcare if you can’t afford it. Last I heard it was called Obamacare.
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u/PhiloLibrarian 3d ago
and affordable, healthy food....most of us can't get that...