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  • SovietyWoomy [any]
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    4 years ago

    I don't know how I wasn't aware he was bringing back the individual mandate. So great to fine people for not giving money to completely unnecessary for-profit middlemen and still effectively not having healthcare because they can't afford the deductible and things wouldn't be covered anyway. At least that added expense they probably also can't afford goes towards continuing to deny them healthcare and other necessities.

    • OhWell [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Absolutely. Biden has flat out said that he plans to bring back the individual mandate. That alone is probably the biggest reason Obamacare was so widely hated across the country when it first passed.

      Obamacare is already despised by everyone who isn't middle class (the only people who actually benefit from it) and I expect Biden to make it even more unpopular with his plans for it.

      • agoddamncheeto [any]
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        4 years ago

        Biden also said during the debate with Trump the only people who would eligible for any public option would be at income levels that would meet Medicaid requirements. So it’s like Medicaid but run by the feds? Which of course it is the insurance industry doesn’t want them anyway, Literally none of their profits or immoral business model is touched under Biden’s plans.

        • OhWell [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, he's basically admitting that the poor are going to get fucked either way under his plan. He's the "middle class" president. In other words, fuck you if you're poor. No different from the conservatives that he loves so much.

          This presidency is going to be a goddamn nightmare. I don't know how the hell people truly think Biden is quote on quote "harm reduction". He's going to push the class war into overdrive, and we'll see a heavy amount of anti-government stuff coming from the right wing again like back in the Obama era.

          • agoddamncheeto [any]
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            4 years ago

            I give the blue majorities in Congress like 2 years. In 2022 GOP will run on anti-government stuff and win back the house and senate. 2024 whatever right wing maniac comes out of a post Trump party runs on repealing Obamacare again and wins. The ACA is going to be a god damn political football the next 20 years the Democrats will not allow us to move beyond it.

    • the_river_cass [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      well yeah, lol, the insurance system is probably going to implode without the mandate as healthy, young, poor people continue opting out. and once it collapses, what will all the poor insurance execs do? think of the profits.