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Public Servant's avatar

Please remember to get your latest Covid boosters. They will protect our health from the antivaxxer MAGAts. Follow the science and trust the experts!

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

And our flu shots. But can we trust our COVID boosters and flu shots? That is the question.

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Ryan Urie's avatar

"The only people who lose under Medicare for All are the shareholders who've been profiting from human suffering."

So, nearly every member of Congress? I wonder why neither party is willing to embrace this wildly popular idea. Hmm...

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SLMontgo's avatar

The MAGA/Heritage Foundation prefer we all die young … and painfully, if at all possible.

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John Cranford's avatar

May they get what they wish. We non-magas are not selfish people.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

Let's start saying the entire GOP Congress. By saying MAGA many may think it's only the 20-30% of voters (I really have no idea) who are real hard core maga people, when in fact it is every single GOP member of Congress.

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SLMontgo's avatar

I said what I meant. That is my goal.

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Tina L Blake's avatar

Is there a way that I can share this good reporting without the crazy click-bait title and picture?

I was going to share on social media, but the way this is presented, it only sings to the choir and deters anyone that might have been on the verge of actually listening to reason.

You guys are so good, but it seems you get more and more over the top looking for clicks.

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Helene S's avatar

I agree - great info if it were packaged better!

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Kezia Sorensen's avatar

It seems like we should be preaching to the choir. All elected Democrats should be trained on how original Medicare is beneficial (opposed to the privatized Advantage plans). Medicare pays 80 percent. You can buy a private plan to cover the other 20. It works for me.

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Kathy's avatar

How Corporate Health Insurers Harm America’s Seniors

Physicians for a National Health Program, May 23, 2024

https://pnhp.org/taking-advantage/

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Tina L Blake's avatar

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be talking to dems, I agree with you. I just wish they could package it a bit differently. I know personally that when I click on some dramatic title and picture, I expect to read that exact thing. It really makes me angry when I click on something and it really doesn’t have any connection to the story or has made me think it’s one thing when it’s going to be another. I used to share their stories all the time, which I feel is part of why they have grown so well… they produce well thought out information and news. There are people out there, though, that aren’t as deeply involved in, or even understanding what’s happening right now. When I am trying to talk someone into a more open space of mind, I don’t slap them in the face with an inflammatory statement to begin with! I just feel like they are beginning to look like some of those channels that I stopped following because I kept getting click-baited. If you can only get followers by doing that kind of thing, then maybe they aren’t the right kind of followers. As a movement, we are bringing on new people that are finally seeing the light, but I don’t personally feel that they will be attracted to this kind of title, even though the article inside it is great.

I guess I just feel that it makes them look unserious, which is exactly the opposite of what they are.

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Kezia Sorensen's avatar

You are quite right and the truly uneducated stop at reading only the title.

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BitsyBelle's avatar

I totally agree. The content is better than the packaging, but I suppose they want a younger generation or the less politically informed to click on it. I’m retired now and I have the time to research and know what I want. If you’re working full-time, you don’t have that luxury.

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Helene S's avatar

I’m 58 and in the last ten years, I’ve lost FOUR phenomenal doctors who left practicing medicine because of the nightmare that is healthcare insurance. Another important reason this has to happen, the healthcare professionals are suffering in this system to the point that it breaks them.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

I lost my outstanding doctor because of COVID and the idiot patients he had that would not follow any medical advice. He'd been my doctor for over 20 years (longest relationship I ever had with anyone except my kids and dentist!). I am in a very red area and most of his patients were maga supporters..maybe not real radicals, but enough that they believed trump when he said take ivermectin or bleach. Ther e will be more and more loss of competent health care professionals as the US demonstrates such hate for foreigners (about 25% of our doctors are foreign born..think any of them would come now, or will stay for long). And as you say, the over all shortness of personnel makes it hard on those who stay and those who can leave will.

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John Wolff's avatar

I live in Eastern NC, very red country. I have had 4 primary care docs in the 10 years since I moved here from North Jersey. The last doc died, and has been replaced with a physicians assistant; she's nice enough, and haven't seen her enough to know about competency. So, I'm getting to just another part of the problem with our current system: medical school costs so much that, unless one is wealthy, the loan costs are onerous, and docs need to either specialize or practice where they can make enough to pay off those loans (a dear friend is a physician, and finally paid off her med school loans in her mid fifties!). Add to that, the AMA and med schools keep enrollment static, so there "won't be toomuch completion". Medicare for all"!!!!

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Helene S's avatar

Yes, good point - I was assigned a PA and then a Nurse Practitioner after losing my primary MD. They’re fine people but I often wonder what the downside is to that.

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menehune's avatar

ALOHA.... “Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.”

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Lucky Lieberman's avatar

WHICH WAY WORKS BETTER FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 7-22-2025

THEIR WAY; CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS

40 TRILLION IN NATIONAL DEBT.

ALL THE MONEY IS IN THE POCKETS OF THE RICH.

A DICTATOR WORKS FOR THE ONLY THE RICH.

THEY BOUGHT YOUR PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE AND SUPREME COURT.

TAXES AND PRICES ARE KILLING US.

LOW PAY, BAD BENEFITS, INFLATION, CORRUPTION BY THIEVES RUNNING OUR GOVERNMENT OUT OF CONTROL.

OUR WAY; BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO I KNOW

OUR NEW AMERICAN PLAN IS FOR ALL AMERICAN’S TO CONTROL THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS UNDER A WRITTEN CONTRACT, THEY VOTE FOR THE LAWS WE THE PEOPLE WANT AS THE LAW, SO AMERICANS HAVE BETTER LIVES.

NO NATIONAL DEBT, THE GOVERNMENT PRINTS ALL THE MONEY IT NEEDS.

NO INCOME TAXES FOR THOSE EARNING LESS THAN $1,000,000.00 A YEAR.

FREE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, FREE DENTAL CARE, FREE PRESCRIPTIONS, NO CO-PAYS, NO DEDUCTIBLES, NO INSURANCE COMPANIES.

STUDENT LOANS FORGIVEN.

FREE COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

STABLE FOOD PRICES.

IMMIGRANTS HERE UNAUTHORIZED WITH NO HISTORY OF VIOLENCE OR WEAPONS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP.

NO MORE TARIFFS.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING BUILT FOR EVERYONE.

NO PROPERTY TAX ON YOUR PERSONAL RESIDENCES.

FREE CHILD CARE OPEN 24/7 FOR OUR POOREST FAMILIES.

ARE WE MAKING YOUR LIVES BETTER YET?

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Lucky Lieberman's avatar

OUR AGREEMENT PLAN FOR SUPPORTING POLITICAL CANDIDATES

WE NEED ALL THE PODCASTERS AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT LIKES THE FOLLOWING CONCEPT; TO SHARE IT WITH EVERYONE AND ANYONE WANTS THIS MOST IMPORTANT CHANGE, SO "WE THE PEOPLE” TAKE CONTROL OF OUR OWN DESTINY. IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE WE BEGIN ELECTING OUR EMPLOYEES, (ANYONE RUNNING FOR POLITICAL OFFICE) THAT THEY WILL AGREE AND SIGN A BINDING AGREEMENT THAT "WE THE PEOPLE” WILL INSTRUCT THEM WHAT LAWS TO PASS, AND 'WE THE PEOPLE” WILL WRITE THESE LAWS, SO AS TO NOT HAVE THEM SUBJECTED TO CORRUPTIBLE INFLUENCING, AND SO THEY WON'T MAKE MISTAKES AND LOOK DIMWITTED BY THEM THINKING THEY KNOW WHAT "WE THE PEOPLE” WANT. THE EASIEST AND BEST WAY, IS THE WAY WE WANT IT HANDLED, AND THE PROOF IS JUST LOOK AT THE FUCKING MESS THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE CAUSED !!

TO ALL FUTURE ELECTED OFFICIALS…..

IF YOU WANT OUR MONEY AND VOTES FOR YOU TO BE ELECTED TO THE HOUSE, SENATE OR PRESIDENCY, THEN AGREE IN WRITING THAT YOU WILL VOTE FOR OUR LAWS, AND DO YOUR VERY BEST TO DELIVER ON YOUR SIGNED AGREEMENT, OR PAY US BACK ALL THE MONEY WE DONATED TO YOU, AND AVOID BEING ACCUSED OF PERJURY BY NOT LYING IN OUR AGREEMENT, IN ADDITION YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY RESIGN FROM YOUR ELECTED POSITION. WE ARE NOT PLAYING GAMES. "WE THE PEOPLE” WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY DECEPTION FROM ANY OF OUR ELECTED EMPLOYEES EVERY AGAIN.

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Bad Bunny's avatar

Single payor -- Medicare For All!

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Barnation Station's avatar

Welp…this one is my favorite!!

Medicare for All was being touted by a “commie” so no fkn way said rich white people. The stupid working class who don’t read, discern, believe in something because someone says it is so, have an Uncle Hal, who’s a big Reagan fan, who says the entire thing is just lazy people, doing lazy things, are good at lazy, period, and therefore God bless the US of US, guns, and prayer. No Commies.

Now, not only is a felon, adjudicated rapist, pathological liar, serial philanderer, martyr by being left unaccountable for 1/6 and stolen military secrets, 6X bk and tax evader, businessman fraud who was a democrat, a Russian asset and has been self dealing and taking Saudi money, any money to bail out properties, golf courses, floors of a Manhattan tower for longer than I’ve been alive, is back with no mandate, no popular vote and now extremely unpopular deadly policy, if one chooses to call concepts and denialism of P25 policy, to do the devil’s bidding.

To finish what the party of fiscal irresponsibility and corporate welfare donors started 50 years ago.

In 2015 his rally cry of being greedy, greedy, greedy was heard ‘round the world.

His band of f’ups are showing their true colors by mooning their voters, bare assed cowardly baboon style, flicking the bic, lighting the match while laughing as their trail of fumes and toxic waste burn to sicken and kill your family and their futures.

They hate vets, military, disabled, elderly, care givers, aid and non profit organizations, real believers in their faith, educated people, anyone who isn’t clad in Chanel and WHITE, the police, the environment, the media, the protected land and parks, the rule of law, the constitution and any one who needs help. I could go on forever.

DJT lost his 400B inheritance so he started what has been doing for 5 decades, fraud and corruption, so why does anyone think he’s capable of handling their finances or wants to help with their healthcare?

He had cheap credit 1.0 because of the pandemic. That’s it. He killed 1M people but he kept rates low because he had an emergency fed funding rate back to zero or he’d have face planted just as he’s doing right now.

He added 8.4 trillion to the debt. Over half was pre-pandemic. Re-read that sentence.

So, burn it down, fire them all, lock them up and we’ll sell you a prayer for your healthy future, fools.

Time to get out the charts, calculators, someone other than Uncle Hal who can mathematically help figure out reality.

Time to start thinking and stop believing an ideology or identity, is the same as you, The People, that which belongs, solely, to a psychopath and a party implementing a death march and don’t waste one single minute about f’ing over every last poor state voter who have been voting against their interests, going to church for absolution, holding tight to the gun no one wants, holding a flag they disrespect, while watching their leader, their savior, their redeemer destroying their very existence.

It’s time for the wealthiest country in the world to stop giving it back to crooked politicians of both parties, WS, self dealing conflicted rich assholes, which is perfectly okay as long as they don’t take from those who need it for simple safety and survival, and take back the inalienable right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness which is not some f’up whining about everything being everyone else’s fault when we demand due responsibility for our security and safety from the man set to destroy those very things. Dems buck TF up!

This administration is not ever closing the widening hole that began 6 months ago.

Isolationism is not how peace, diplomacy and global security for the future works.

Rogan may be popular but he’s not saving anyone.

Inclusion is Christianity. Diversity is Christianity. Equity/equality is Christianity.

Reality is DEI is humanity.

We get real or get on a fast path to serfdom.

F this restructuring dictatorial BS of OUR republic by threats, extortion, intimidation, terrorizing, violence and calling it all America First.

We The People are First.

Anyone only needs to ask themselves why are they waiting for most of their cruelty to kick in after the 26 midterms they plan to gerrymander, suppress and cheat?

Don’t let the man and the party who unequivocally interfered in the last three elections.

16…34 felony counts, Russia

20…a coup, incited insurrection and the Big Lie, Russia

24…lies so deep and painful just so he stays out of prison and his voters are promised the only deliverance he’ll give them which is an insult and a middle finger for your future while the drug addled addict takes a hatchet to what makes this country tick.

Can you sign a contract for a new couch all sauced up?

How then does he get the SCOTUS to green light our private information to give a 24 year old named Big Balls?

We deserve better.

We deserve safety.

We deserve accountability, transparency, a stable president to protect and honor his/her Oath, that includes everyone on our soil.

It also means competent, co-equal legislative and judicial branches who value their own oaths they owe the people.

The judicial, not legally spoken/written, in the constitution or elsewhere, are nonetheless fiduciaries for those their Oath demands duties which are legally binding. They are ruling on ideological lines.

Hope they use their time, in deep deliberation, to decide whom their accountability, is owed, as fiduciary is the highest trust a person can place in another. Theirs doesn’t belong, in totality, to the president. Nor does it give them the right to write laws like criminal immunity.

Medicare for All!!!

This is an absolute message that wins for those who, even like Milton, believed in playing on a fair playing field.

The addled Musk loved to post truncated Milton shorts. However, I disagree with him, it’s important to have the whole picture not the manipulated version.

They eat our faces or we give them the rope Terry Moran knows how to give and run with messages that aren’t lies. Late, yes. Lies, no. Let’s GO!!!!

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WJB Motown's avatar

Satans Orange Taco is the number one enemy of the human race.

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Mika Anderson's avatar

Great reporting! Yes, I believe AOC would run on this. Get it to her.

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Kezia Sorensen's avatar

If AOC is promoting Medicare for all, then its opponents will call it a radical commie idea. All elected Democrats need to get on board. Maybe contact Hakiim Jeffries to lead his group. Just a suggestion. We’ve been pummeled for years about the radical left.

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Chris Fabel's avatar

Crazy informative article. Thank you!

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Carol's avatar

Thank you! This is such a terrific summary!

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Barb O's avatar

This is the best summary of single payer health I have yet seen. It needs to go viral. I have been a proponent of single payer since 1990, when I researched it for graduate school. Unfortunately, I was a lonely voice who was seen as a Socialist, a Communist, or just anti-American. Bernie Sanders has been right all along. And maybe before he and I both die, we will get to where every other modern nation in the world now lives with health care.

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Karen Hall's avatar

Great article with such a strong scope of analysis. Thank you.

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Deborah B. Wygonik's avatar

Thank you, Max. That was very good info. Healthcare does need improved and there are a lot of other government functions in need of improvement. The problem with what has happened is that Trump came in and he wants to fix everything now. He and Musk just came in and completely destroyed all government functions without any plans on how to fix anything. They fired/retired everyone! You need all types of people to run a business...the educated person/s to run the jobs and educated people who can do the jobs, and then you can hire. Trump/Musk came in said to get rid of everyone and start over! It doesn't work!! They did that with every function of our government. He could have taken a few at a time, develop a plan, maybe make tweaks, then move on to other government functions. Our whole government is messy and out of control. Personally, I could never work like that!!

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