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As great as this sounds it is still incredibly sad that we have to create bandaids to allow it to continue instead of actually fixing the problem... it will only get worse.
Another way to look at it is that this starts to isolate medical finance from the rest of the system to lessen the economic shock of nationalizing healthcare.
Bingo. . This seems like a deft move by old Joe.
Got to get rid of insurance companies.
The ACA served to entrench them further.
I mean, it was a Republican bill written by insurance companies. Romneycare in MA.That's not new news. And it wasn't hidden news then. Why do you think Republicans hated it so much?
because that was their answer for medicine and Democrats stole it from their platform, bc Democrats are spineless and won't do anything to upset the corporate overlords. They'll pre-negotiate amongst themselves like a bunch of bitches guaranteeing they'll be whittled further to the right than they already are (Democrats ARE NOT left wing).
Once Lieberman killed the public option I said it to everyone; so much for hope and change? One party wants a shock and awe event to take us back to fuedalism, reneg suffrage and bring back out in the open slavery. The other party doesn't have any actual vision, they just want to make sure it's incremental.
This is how you fix problems. Make things better, where you can, where you can get the political backing to do it.
Don't be one of those people that says "Its not perfect, so its not worth doing it"
Cause the only people that say that are the ones that want to actively sabotage the system, like how was done with the ACA.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
What else are you supposed to do when you cut yourself crawling across shards of broken glass on the way to the refrigerator? Besides, even if you wanted to clean it up, your state is run by anti-sweeping politicians because your neighbors don't want their tax dollars going to Big Broom and helping you clean when you should really be spending your time working at the Fragile Dinnerware factory. Maybe you should consider living in a house that's not filled with broken glass. But your neighbors really would like to let you use this bandaid — who doesn't love a feel-good story???
This is a feature not a bug, after all, both parties serve capitalism and the status quo, neither is there to make life or society any better for people.