There are a lot of reasons to be wary about a Medicare for All plan: 1. The cost... people will point out that total healthcare spending is projected to go down, but it's not so simple to "move" the money that's spent in the private market today into government coffers to spend on M4A. It's logistically difficult but moreso it's politically difficult. People don't like taxes more than they don't like paying their employer for a benefit. There will also be people who pay more in this new tax than they paid on their old employer plan, they won't be happy either. 2. A main reason that overall costs would be projected to be lower is that Medicare has WAY lower reimbursement rates for providers. M4A basically represents a mass defunding of hospitals and providers. If you look at healthcare professions in other countries they are all paid way less. Big salary cuts for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, x ray techs... you get the idea... is not going to be popular. But you're forcing hospitals to take massive revenue cuts with these reimbursement rates so what else is there to do, labor is their largest expense. 3. Complete government control of what is and isn't covered, how everything is administered, etc. It's Sarah Palin's "death panels" but real this time lol. Obviously we have a ton of people on government plans already, and government run healthcare is fine if it's run by competent people who want to see it succeed and know what they are doing. The problem is that our country has a political party hell bent on making public goods and services worse and now they're full of cranks and kooks like RFK. I would much rather a system with private insurers where I can shop around vs. being forced onto a government plan run by a nutjob. 4. Most people like their current insurance plan, most people are covered by insurance, and we don't need to do this massive disruption to the system to cover the people who are currently uninsured. We can expand the safety net, offer a public option, lower the age to buy into Medicare, etc. There are plenty of "boring" reforms that would accomplish the goal of universal healthcare, they're just not as flashy or sexy as Medicare for All so a lot of people don't care because it's not actually about healthcare for them, it's about politics.

"journalist" lmao

So tired of people’s politics just being endless wish casting, you don't get to decide what the voters care about, and repeatedly lecturing them about how they should care about the things that you care about isn't a good electoral strategy.

Don’t you just feel retarded typing this out?

People who have kids often become self obsessed hovering freaks it’s insufferable. Parents were not always like this (you can’t leave your two year old with a trusted love one for a weekend, really? You need to be with them EVERY day no matter what ?)

This is a GOATed idea but it can't only ever work one way lol the leftists have to take this tact sometimes as well

He says this as if Iowa independents like trans women in female sports or taxpayer funded sex changes lmao Imagine making your entire career talking about politics and knowing so little about it

If you’re not an Iowa voter who has voted for Trump before then please shut the fuck up because you’re not the intended audience of this ad If you’re criticizing this then you’re not a swing voter in Iowa.

This tracks. It’s just too good to justify not using it.

Are we gonna be attacking people on the left over looks because I have to say the lefty DSA folks may not want to open that can of worms

Tell me more about how people are not denying biological sex. Every time I mention this issue my mentions get flooded with people claiming that the trans movement OBVIOUSLY does not deny sex. And also other people who claim trans women are actually female Lmao

Enjoy senator Ashely moody, you specifically deserve her.

leftists will just take any one Democrat that says something they don't like and pretend they represent the totality of the party and criticize every Democrat on that basis. This is a few people in red states taking a position that that'll never actually get passed in a Democratic majority congress because it will never even come up for a vote. Bad faith or stupid, it's always so hard to decide which it is. Why don't you guys focus on persuading voters in red states of your positions and that way Democrats in those states won't have to cater to these views. This position probably has 70% support in Iowa!

“Don’t judge us based on our platform which is decided on by the members of the organization!” Is fucking deranged. Yeah the candidates aren’t “running” on abolish the police because they have three brain cells, but there’s no reason to believe they actually disagree with the platform unless they specifically call it out. We’re literally just criticizing the positions the org puts on their website. What are we doing here.

God he’s so cringe

"This is like taking campaign money to buy a billboard to announce your own DUI" @profgalloway on the Ramaswamy ad lmao