The Democrat plan to privatize Medicare by expanding the private, for-profit Medicare Advantage program
  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Everyone: We want Medicare for All.

    Democrats: You already have Medicare.

    Everyone: Huh?

    Democrats:Unveils this monstrosity

    Honestly nothing pisses me off more than realizing that Medicare is still a jumbled mess because politicians care so much more about insurance companies' profiting than they do about people. Living with someone that watches a lot of daytime TV one of the things that I see a lot are ads for supplemental Medicare plans and increasingly Medicare Advantage plans. And its like fuck... there really is no fucking escape at all. And its so fucking confusing. Makes me feel bad for anyone that has to deal with this shit.

  • femboi [they/them, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Wow I didn’t know how crazy and corrupt Medicare Advantage is (although I’m not surprised because hellworld etc etc)

    • Diestar [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah I had a general notion but never got too far into it

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I know boomers already skew towards voting red, but I can't imagine the ones that do vote blue sticking around once right wing rhetoric switches to attacking this type of bullshit. Denying for pre-existing conditions at age 65, jfc