Exclusive: legislation creates a program to cancel all existing patient debt and block creditors from collecting past medical bills
  • Xhieron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I don’t have any medical debt at the moment, and I think there are probably some better long-term things we could spend our extremely valuable and limited political capital on, so naturally I strongly support this because I’m not a fucking inhuman monster.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Okay, but just like student debt, it doesn’t fix the actual problem. Bailing water out of a ship doesn’t do much compared to fixing the fucking hole in the hull.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      How is it going with the project of fixing the debt?

      Btw those wood ships took on water all the time and had to run pumps every day. I find it amusing that a solution that worked for multiple hundreds of years thousands of times a day is used as an analogy for something not working. Hey did you know that human kidney rarely works pass the 110 years of operation mark?

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I love how, whenever centrists kill some progressive policy, centrists are like “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” but let a progressive suggest actual incremental change toward something centrists don’t want to do, and suddenly centrists want immediate perfection.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It also doesn’t stand a chance in hell of passing. It’s grandstanding, if anything

      • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Bernie doesn’t do a ton of grandstanding. He’s also one of the only senators who introduces bills that get bipartisan support sometimes. I really don’t think he’s introducing a bill he means to go nowhere

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Why do you think it doesn’t stand a chance of passing? Not because people don’t like the idea, but because people accurately believe that big medical and big banks have too much political power.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        A congresspersons job is to advance bills consistent with their platform, and the will of their constituents. talking about favoring some hypothetical bill is grandstanding. Actually building the thing and bringing it forward is the real deal.

        Now, some bills have little to no chance of passing. This is one of those. But Bernie can’t control who he sits next to.

    • Pistcow@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Hmm if there was only a plan a guy that rhymes with Ernie Manders tried to get passed for the past 20 years.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Sanders knows that and wants to do both. He mentioned in the statement quoted in the article.

      He wants to have universal healthcare and wants cancel existing debt for anyone fucked by the current system.