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mk  ·  1824 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Joe Biden Announces Candidacy

Sorry. I didn’t mean to gloss over something you have going on. If that’s the case, I really am sorry.

Politically, I just don’t think the Bern has the best approach. Obama got rid of preexisting conditions. I think it talkes that kind of president to make something like that happen, as messed up as the progress looks.

My uncle did vote for Bernie, then Trump. That’s fucked up, but I also think it says something about their appeal to dissatisfaction, and how easily they make solutions seem. I think we are being taught to expect too much from presidents.

Once again, I’m sorry if the medical issue is personal for you atm. I’m not terribly astute in that sense.





tacocat  ·  1823 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Please proudly announce that you are totally ignorant of what it's like to included in the cohort that would receive this benefit and fuck off forever

mk  ·  1798 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had a doc do an off-the-book biopsy on me in a side room because I had no insurance. I was lucky I had an doc friend that could do that, and very lucky that it was benign.

It's been a long time since then, but I remember the feeling of helplessness.

tacocat  ·  1823 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The ACA got kneecapped by the Supreme Court when they struck down the Medicare expansion. It's basically useless as it stands for poor people like me in conservative states. I'm a leftist but I'm more social democrat than socialist. We're at a crossroads like we were in the thirties where shit was so bad that fascism and socialism rose together. The New Deal was a salve that preserved capitalism and we need another one like it because the alternative is fascism. M4A is a part of that. I'm personally more for a public option.

mk  ·  1665 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sorry. I was arguing with much less at stake, and I ignored just how close it hits home to you. That was a dick thing to do. I'm sorry I didn't take the chance to listen.