Bernie hopes to peel off a small slice of Trump voters. You know, the handful that have actual economic anxiety.
He has a history of going into āhostile territoryā, so to speak.
EDIT: He was asked that same question by Trevor Noah, here is his answer:
Interesting. So he was hoping heād get to say, āSo, Senator, a lot of people are happy with their current healthcare and donāt want single payer.ā
I wish the video had continued. I would have liked to have seen his reaction.
SlyFrog
3830
To be fair, the majority of Trump voters have economic anxiety. Because by far the vast, vast majority of all Americans have at least some economic anxiety; many have a lot of economic anxiety.
Theyāre just too stupid to vote for a candidate who will actually try to help them.
Timex
3831
Someone may have already posted this.
https://portside.org/2019-03-13/dying-whiteness
Early in his book, ā Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing Americaās Heartland ,ā physician and social scientist Jonathan M. Metzl introduces a Tennessee man named Trevor. Trevor is 41 and dying of liver disease. He lives in a low-income housing facility and he doesnāt have health insurance.
āHad Trevor lived a simple thirty-nine minute drive away in neighboring Kentucky, he might have topped the list of candidates for expensive medications called polymerase inhibitors, a life-saving liver transplant, or other forms of treatment and support,ā Metzl writes. But Tennessee officials repeatedly blocked efforts to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
But Trevor is not mad at the stateās elected officials. āAināt no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,ā he tells Metzl. āI would rather die.ā When Metzl prods him about why heād choose death over affordable health care, Trevorās answer is telling. āWe donāt need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.ā
Would literally rather die than possibly help other people.
Also, way to go, Tennessee! Didnāt think it was possible to make Kentucky look progressive, but here we are!
CraigM
3832
So heās going to die, because he is stupid.
Know what? Fuck it. He got what he deserved. But what about the other people in his state who didnāt?
So, Trevor, I got something for ya
(Iām actually in a fairly good mood today! This song just has cracked me up in the right way)
Godā¦damnā¦that just wrecks me. I doubt I could read the whole book.
People often think Iām exaggerating when I call Tennessee one of the worst states in the union because Iām a radical who wants to imprison people for registering as Republican, but it truly is one of the most unfathomably shitty places Iāve ever had the misfortune of witnessing, and its population reflects that incredibly well.
KevinC
3835
You know, it had a pretty decent run but Iām basically over this whole Democracy thing. Sounds great in theory but then you meet Trevor. Fuckinā Trevor, man.
Timex
3836
But on the upside, Trevorās probably dead by now!
Dying young to own the libs.
So confusing when Trump seems to advocate good policy. Itās like seeing a dog smoke a cigarette.
Hard to believe the GOP would be on board with this. Itās not a long leap from ālimit what doctors can be paidā to ālimit what CEOs can be paidā. In the end you can only fix the problem by regulating pay.
magnet
3841
This isnāt really about regulating pay. This is about regulating the relationship between doctors, insurance companies, and patients.
Normally an insurance company is much better able to negotiate down doctorās fees, but in some situations (e.g. out-of-network providers) they are no longer involved and the patient is hit with a bill over which they have little control.
The proposed legislation would force insurance companies to remain involved. However, there really isnāt any good extension to CEOs, since CEO pay is not based on this unique lopsided triangular relationship.
Itās true that all three proposals would take patients out of the loop on dealing with these charges. Itās also true that all three are mechanisms for regulating what out-of-network doctors can charge. The first proposal establishes a formula for what they can charge. The second forces doctors to negotiate with insurers, which will surely reduce what they charge. The third forces them to negotiate with hospitals, which will have the same effect. None of this is bad, IMO; I just donāt think the GOP will be on board, because that sort of thing is communism.
ShivaX
3843
Itās a classic.
My go-to these days is harsher though:
