in the midterms.
Somehow we must decrease healthcare costs AND make it available to everyone.
Sending billions to insurance companies will only refuel inflation.
We need to find a way to make them COMPETE against one another to drive the costs down.
Maybe they need to bid on the right to provide coverage and only the low bidders get the contracts.
Replies to: "The Republicans need to come up with an alternative health care plan or they will get demolished"
- The Republicans need to come up with an alternative health care plan or they will get demolished - Curly1918 - 1:54pm 11/11/25
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- Boehner and co, offered a single sided large font 2 page bullet point HC plan - jimbasil - 3:06pm 11/11/25
- It's been 15 yrs now and the GOP hasn't offered anything, nor has it opposed Insurance Co's - TyroneIrish - 2:48pm 11/11/25
- I'm with Bernie: Health care should be deemed a basic human right in America. [LINK]
- conorlarkin - 2:35pm 11/11/25
- So now you don't understand what a "right" is. [NT]
- jakers - 4:06pm 11/11/25
- I do. It's why I believe in due process, even for people of color or for undocumented immigrants. - conorlarkin - 5:24pm 11/11/25
- Health Care isn't a right. Access to it is. [NT] - jakers - 5:43pm 11/11/25
- Something all people should be given by virtue of their birth - Chris94 - 4:25pm 11/11/25
- No. A right doesn't require anyone else to do anything for you. [NT]
- jakers - 5:43pm 11/11/25
- What about the right to counsel? See Strickland v Washington. [NT] - conorlarkin - 5:47pm 11/11/25
- You have just proclaimed The Right To Life. - Hensou - 5:14pm 11/11/25
- Since even the RCC has never taught that Personhood begins at conception, a woman's - TyroneIrish - 6:09pm 11/11/25
- No. A right doesn't require anyone else to do anything for you. [NT]
- jakers - 5:43pm 11/11/25
- I do. It's why I believe in due process, even for people of color or for undocumented immigrants. - conorlarkin - 5:24pm 11/11/25
- Basic healthcare and public education should not be profit centers. [NT]
- LanceManion - 3:06pm 11/11/25
- Agreed. [NT] - TyroneIrish - 3:09pm 11/11/25
- Just as everyone needs Utilities...everyone needs Health Care, so that industry needs to be treated - TyroneIrish - 3:05pm 11/11/25
- That's the same thing I've been talking about. - iairishcheeks - 3:02pm 11/11/25
- Not surprised you are with the Communist/Socialist. - PaND - 2:52pm 11/11/25
- So now you don't understand what a "right" is. [NT]
- jakers - 4:06pm 11/11/25
- Would single payor be more expensive? Bridge the gap between Medicare & Medicaid. [NT]
- LanceManion - 2:33pm 11/11/25
- What happens to the 60% of the population who are happy with their employer policies? - Curly1918 - 3:13pm 11/11/25
- Supplemental policies and narrow networks. This exists now with Medicare, Medicare Advantage and - LanceManion - 3:18pm 11/11/25
- Our current system is the most expensive in the world. - iairishcheeks - 3:00pm 11/11/25
- We have way more people here getting it for free. [NT] - PaND - 3:25pm 11/11/25
- The cost of prescription drugs is the largest driver of healthcare cost inflation. This seems - LanceManion - 3:05pm 11/11/25
- What happens to the 60% of the population who are happy with their employer policies? - Curly1918 - 3:13pm 11/11/25
- This is truth. We've exhausted the competition model, IMO. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 2:06pm 11/11/25
- Here is something the guy you voted for said last night that might give you some confidence - Chris94 - 1:59pm 11/11/25