"Americans by and large do not like the Affordable Care Act ... They like private insurance." This is what RFK is telling the Senate now as he prepares to try once again to kill Obamacare.
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@jeffjarvis RFK continuing his life-long alliance with deadly microbes.
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If they'd just change the name to We All Love DJT Care that might satisfy them.
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@jeffjarvis Yet no one has been attempting to mangione the HHS Secretary. At least not so far.
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@jeffjarvis I think we could do better than the ACA, but private insurance ain't it! And I'd like to keep the ACA until something better is in place.
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They like private insurance.. . hmm remember the reaction when that health care CEO was murdered. . . .
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@jeffjarvis Last time I checked, ACA is private insurance.
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Yeah, this statement should be disqualifying on that basis alone.
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@jeffjarvis American voters "by and large" voted for someone other than Donald Trump to be president. Americans by and large support background checks for gun purchases.
Since when did we start doing things in this country based on what Americans by and large like or dislike? What matters in this #oligarchy is what our #oligarchs like. The oligarchs for sure want to kill Obamacare.
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@jeffjarvis just ask Luigi
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@jeffjarvis I couldn't be a con artist because I can't imagine big enough lies to tell. Big, stupid lies, so big that no one can believe they are lies, that's what con artists need.
The ACA is a way of getting everyone into private insurance. That's how it works. That implicit contrast, between the ACA and "private insurance," is the big lie I wouldn't have the imagination for.
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@jeffjarvis Sigh. At this rate I'm going to sprain my middle finger. 😞
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@jeffjarvis He’s a tool. It is private insurance priveleged, entitled, ass. He knows nothing about the differences between heath care programs AT ALL and they will confirm him into running them all into the ground! I hope people remember what it was like before the ACA! Oh, and the places uninsured COULD access ANY health care are GONE now!
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@jeffjarvis Someone should ask Brian Thompson if that is true.
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@jeffjarvis como no Brasil, seguro saúde privado é algum tipo de status. Embora aqui a saúde pública seja tão boa quanto, ou até melhor do que a privada, há gente que quer o seguro privado, quer o hospital de luxo.
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@jeffjarvis
People hate the ACA because the ACA IS private insurance. It was just a (now failed) scheme to try and force people to buy private insurance.
Anyone who genuinely likes the ACA is so limited in their imagination and perception of the wider world that they may as well be living in a cave.
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@jeffjarvis Someone in the Senate told him the ACA is private insurance, right?
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Who the fuck likes private insurance?
I pay almost $800 a month for private insurance for myself and my spouse. A trip to the ER still costs us $400 just to get in the door. This doesn't touch the facility fees and the individuals doctors who'll need to be paid for whatever I'm there for. Usually in the area of $500 - $1000.
We frequent the ER about 4 times a year.
You want me to believe that subsidized government insurance would cost us more than that?
Pffft.
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@jeffjarvis We neither like private insurance, nor the ACA
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@jeffjarvis Members of the US government get free healthcare
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@jeffjarvis Most people don't see the staggering stupidity in that statement, I'm sure.
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@jeffjarvis Americans "by and large" never have experienced a social healthcare system (which, btw, has nothing to do with socialism). Obamacare is only a band-aid mitigating the worst effects of an entirely privatised and profit-driven healthcare system.
The US expats in the EU I know consider the US system broken and wish the US would have something at least similar to that, what they experienced here in Europe.
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Dislike of the ACA is real -- because it is an inadequate patch to a fundamentally broken system.
But that second part? I don't think I have ever heard a single person praise the private insurance system.
(Going to leave the part about ACA including private insurance on the table)
Maybe this is something rich people I never hear from think..?
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No, the thing is he's an idiot because the ACA is private insurance. The entire statement is meaningless.
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@jeffjarvis
I really wish both the Right and the Left would realize that Obamacare/ACA IS Private Insurance, and would admit that health insurance rates increased at an astronomical rate since the ACA was passed...
...but that would mean both the Right and the Left would have to acknowledge reality.
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@jeffjarvis Ready player two? Ready player two!
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@jeffjarvis If the essence of fascism consists of telling the most outrageous lies with a straight face and demanding that people believe them, then RFK jr is delivering a record-setting performance. The Dear Orange Leader will be so proud.
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@jeffjarvis health by wealth. How American 🫣
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@jeffjarvis to RFK, Jr: But they do like the ACA, Blanche, they do.
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@jeffjarvis The ACA is private insurance.
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@jeffjarvis Did he cite a large, carefully designed survey with adequate statistical analysis to draw that conclusion, or did the dead worm tell him that?
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@jeffjarvis Well... the rich people HE knows don't like it.
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@jeffjarvis bullshit!! I am self employed and the ACA is all I can afford or I don't have health insurance!!
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@jeffjarvis Will someone take the mic away from the 🪱?
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Okay, but the Affordable Care Act didn't establish public insurance? What a glass of rotten milk he is.
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Ahem ... The affordable care act insurers ARE private companies, but held to a government standard.
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@jeffjarvis Pretty much I now mentally replace "Americans" with "My zillionaire donors" and statements like this make a lot more sense.
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@jeffjarvis up there with "everyone wanted Roe to be overturned!" in terms of right-wing lies.
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@jeffjarvis 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
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@jeffjarvis He forgot the word "wealthy" before the word "Americans"...
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@jeffjarvis I mean, ACA/Obamacare IS private insurance!
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@jeffjarvis unpopular opinion but I think Obamacare is going to have to die before we get single player. In fact I am really only 1/2 grateful for 1/2 measures, I call that proportional.
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No one likes private insurance: that’s why we started executing their CEOs.
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