Americans are unhappy with the state of health care and insurance
Americans are unhappy with the state of health care and insurance
538's polling column about the state of health care, voters' trust in the 2024 election results and President Joe Biden's approval rating.
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Realistically, if we're ever going to get real healthcare reform, it will have to come from a Republican. Trump probably isn't the man to do it, but Republicans at this time in history are the party of change. Democrats don't support any change. I wonder at this point if people with progressive issues on healthcare should start running as Republicans.
There is a zero percent chance that Republicans turn on their donors
We got healthcare reform (nowhere near enough but we got some) under Obama, so I think it would have been possible under Harris as well.
I agree that we got change under Obama, but I wouldn't call it any more than that. Softening the edges of the existing system just enough to gut any real push toward
change isn't reform; it's entrenchmentfundamentally different systems like universal healthcare wasn't reform; it was entrenchment.Well then you didn't have any pre-existing conditions.
I did.
That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.
Well then you didn't have any pre-existing conditions.
I don't know why you would assume that, or why you would imagine that I was unaware of this change.
That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.
Of course this was huge for people, but it wasn't a huge reform for the health insurance agency. It didn't change the for-profit nature of health insurance; it just put a guardrail on it. It softened one of the hardest edges of private health insurance, which made it palatable enough to escape real reform.
I would agree, but for different reasons. The GOP is unapologetically obstructionist when the Dems are power. Conversely, Dems are more likely to compromise. Now, if a moderate Dem can quietly work with a moderate Rep, or at least one that agrees health care reform is a priority, some kind of reform could happen. Private insurance isn’t going anywhere, though. There’s just too much money involved for a politician from either side to threaten those profits! The old excuse: “But what about the economy!?”