our lack of universal health care is ridiculous and the easiest thing to fix. #Medicare4All is very popular with everyone except some of those getting wealthy from the industry. either candidate could ensure their win today by promising even to just start eligibility at 50yo.
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house chores, errands, laundry, cooking, mowing, care-taking, repairs, schooling, all domestic activities are work and as such, LABOR.
there's so much talk about #tradwives these days, it bears repeating: #capitalism completely devalued the labor of housekeeping, turning it back to its original condition as a form of, if not slavery then, domestic servitude.
the Wealth of Nations is built on the Stolen Labor of Home keepers. yet another reason for #UBI and #Medicare4All
i do not understand why hospitals advertise. as with the bullshitery of pharmaceutical advertising, if this is why they have to justify their obscene prices (but, but mah marketing budget), here's yet another reason to: socialize health care, outlaw health care capitalism and make sure we have #Medicare4All
I remember in 2009 when the public option and Medicare expansion fell down and died. Lots of people every day since died who might have lived. Remembering them and their families this morning.
Biden promised a public option in 2020. #Medicare4All is still popular, even among Republicans. anybody remember #ForceTheVote? many more Dems (in addition to all Republicans afaik) are to blame for this than just Lieberman.
and what really sucks is the strategy of still voting Dem where it matters makes sense, no matter how many times they side with donors and people die, go bankrupt and our economy remains less competitive. kill the duopoly. #RankedChoiceVoting
reminder that it would be cheaper for the US govt to pay for your medical care than it is for them to pay insurance corporations to deny your medical care
what will it take for Americans to treat #HealthCare as a Human Right and not a commodity?
someone cancelled my #chemo and didn't think to tell me. what's worse? the hospital doesn't have a protocol for dealing with these kinds of screw ups beyond a 'sorry.'
it's not the in-take clerk's fault that i had to demand they pay for my ride back home because i cannot take mass transit as a #cancer patient. it's the job of the administration to foresee these errors and have a contingency plan. /1
I kinda want #Trump to win just so that we can field test our institutions again. He sucks but he won't end democracy this time either. Misinfo isn't an existential threat. They are the new excuses to get everyone to vote Dem and give up on independent journalism. Elite establishment talking points. Instead all these people could and should be screaming for policy proposals like #medicare4all and reforms like #FFV to raise turnout. Working towards media decentralization and higher standards.
For anyone who hasn't seen this, it's an interesting read about Frederick Ludwig Hoffman. "Racism is the main reason that America doesn’t consider healthcare a human right and provide it to all citizens"
Robert Card, an Army reservist with a history of mental health issues, is suspected of killing at least 18 people at multiple locations in Maine on Wednesday.
Republican billionaires fund malign influence campaigns solely to blameshift
They attack women's civil rights to coerce birth rate increases, & avoid awkward conversations about low wages, student debt, unaffordable housing, & no #medicare4all
They attack LGBTQ+ civil rights as punishment for not voting GOP & buy bigoted evangelicals' votes
They attack democracy to thwart: gun safety, climate action, covid mitigation, Ukraine's military aid, and especially taxation
there is a competition among techbro billionaires to see who gets named trillionaire first.
so they have to lie about American's average net worth being over a million dollars.
after all, it also effectively kills any argument about Americans needing better wages, #Medicare4all, #StudentLoan bailouts and the golden goose they have yet to cannibalize: #SocialSecurity
"If you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts" Margaret Mead said.
Science and industry were well aware of the dangers of leaded gasoline when it was first introduced in the 1920s. But adding tetraethyl lead to motor fuel made internal combustion engines work better. And that made it possible to turn the automobile into a mass market product. The result was the biggest mass-poisoning in human history. Bestselling author Steven Johnson joins us to mark the 100th anniversary of the invention of leaded gas. Episode 112 is here: https://thewaroncars.org/2023/10/10/112-unintended-consequences-with-steven-johnson
That saltwater wedge sliding up the Mississippi River threatening our drinking water is a public health story we're going to see repeated over and over as seas rise around the world. I saw a similar phenomenon in western India years ago. Get moving. Start planning. Build #climateresilience.
@AnarchoNinaWrites thank you love. i just want people fighting to get all the medical care we all deserve. get that Medicaid if you don't have insurance. fight for #Medicare4All
and while we're at it, send me all the cute little otters, pandas, dogs, cats, hippos... heck all baby animals gifs, memes, videos you can get. i need as many hits of serotonin i can get. i won't let the eugenicists win.
seriously...y'all have poutine, best wild salmon on the planet, the Raptors and Blue Jays and #Medicare4All which the fascists gringos hate. also, almost all the best comedians in the US are Canadian. oh and then there's your Caribana... omg and then there's Letterkenny.
Trump phony "tough" public persona is bolstered by the anti-democracy billionaire donors funding a seditious conspiracy
What happens when the money goes away?
Will the Gas & Oil Party still be calling the shots when the globe moves to renewables?
GOP billionaire donors are afraid of the voting power of black & brown voters. Women voters. Young voters. Poor voters. Immigrant voters. Educated voters. Gun safety voters. Environmentalist voters. Union voters. #Medicare4All voters.
We live in a country where health insurance corps make billions exploiting the sick with unaffordable medicine, spike their insurance premiums, & deny their claims—& then use those ill gotten gains to fund politicians they know won't hold them accountable.
It's no wonder that out of all developed nations globally, the USA spends double per capita on healthcare—yet has lower life expectancy, higher maternal mortality, & higher infant mortality.
@QasimRashid
Since you are running for Congress, I have a sincere question for you:
What are the top 3 most effective tactics Americans can employ right now to further the goal of universal, single-payer healthcare?
We have Medicare For All on the table in both the House and Senate. Badgering our bought-off representatives has proven futile.
I work with universal healthcare advocacy orgs on both the state and national levels, and, often, we are at a loss as to where our very limited resources would best be spent.
Sometimes, I feel like making a sign, standing in front of the hospital day after day, shouting about the insanity of our system would be my best use of time.
P.S. I don't live in your jurisdiction, but I hope you win.
yes but everyone who makes these arguments needs to also support (and get vocal about) #RankedChoiceVoting so we can get beyond the duopoly. it's a shitty system that makes big changes nearly impossible. the Democratic party doesn't support #Medicare4All, serious efforts to lower college costs, big increases in taxing the wealthy or decreasing the Pentagon budget. what a joke. https://time.com/6112318/american-democracy-final-five-voting/
Internet Archive now has a menstruation information and history library, since we now live in a world with Florida bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools.
#RFKjr doesn't even support #Medicare4All. WTF. Big pharma hates universal health care and he claims to be on the side of the public. I have a hard time believing he's a liar or grifter, but then he's just dumb or crazy.
it's like assuming that because even most Democrats in Congress (House and Senate) won't support #Medicare4All, the American people don't want it by overwhelming margins. same with massively shrinking the Pentagon budget. is there an alternative explanation besides that y'all are corrupted by donors?