*Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege
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Healthcare is already a human right, there's only one country that doesn't know it..
That was on the ballot in 2024. America said, "No. We want crime, disease, and pain."
That is the only place it stays, on the ballot not in policy, bills. Because that would hurt the donors.
America just said no to duplicity.
It was on the ballot in 2020, we voted for it. Democrats have no credibility since they don't follow through.
So why couldn't they do that in the last 4 years?
Because the Republicans, or a mysteriously convenient amount of Dems voted it down every time?
And you say this has been going on for 20 years now?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Dems probably wouldn't have been able to pass stuff yet again if they were in power.
Really we need to dimantle the Duopoly and take our country back
"Look ignore 20 years of policy and corporate donations, maybe next time we'll give you the medication you need to live for $5 cheaper!"
Provided you're a boomer and meet our means testing requirements.
A cap on the price Medicaid would pay for insulin for the people it covers and unenforced pledge from pharmaceutical companies to cap their prices that they could reverse at any time was on the ballot
Better than what we're about to get, but far short of the right it should be
~Insulin~ Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.
You have to establish in law and in the minds of the people that the government has a duty to provide affordable health care for it's people. Every other developed nation (and many developing ones) have figured it out. Americans have not, like at all.
Didn't this already get pointed out when Elon bought Twitter and that account impersonated Eli Lilly saying insulin should be free?
But what about the medical industry's right to gouge you? Free market isn't free market if you can't dangle the medicine even further away, laughing at someones child's crawling body, the child too weak to even reach up for it, with a trail of tears behind the kid as you continue to step backwards, smiling even wider, almost frolicking.
It's what Adam Smith envisioned, I'm sure of it.
Also, I'm a big fan of Ayn Rand.
Literally saw a mother in tears because she couldn’t afford her child’s Insulin. Her and her husband work full time jobs. They work hard and are normal people. But now they have to ration the insulin doses to try and last the entire month.
a 30 day supply of insulin for me would be 765 retail without my workplaces insurance. Insulin pump supplies would be another 450 a month. I dont know how anyone affords it without insurance from work. A parent would have to devote their entire minimum wage paycheck for nothing but insulin. No food, housing or clothes epenses unless they had another parent. And year by year a diabetics body needs a slightly higher dose as insulin resistence builds. Pretty tragic to be diabetic and poor in the US.
I used to work customer service for a mail order pharmacy and about every 1-2 weeks I would get a phone call from somebody threatening to commit suicide because they could no longer afford their medication most often this was for insulin.
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