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Nunn is desperate to save good political bacon. Whether he votes for an extension or not ( I’m betting “not”), he floats the idea that he might be interested in a bipartisan compromise to be able to fling turds across the aisle later and accuse Dems of being “extreme” @edtibbetts.bsky.social

BTW, everyone says “healthcare is broken,“ but rarely does anyone say how or why. I have interacted with the healthcare system A LOT this past year with great insurance coverage and the BEST treatment. I count myself fortunate. The healthcare professionals and pharmaceuticals have been world class.

policies, rules, regulators, and profit motives. People always have complained and always will complain about how expensive things are, and medicine is no different. IMHO, the cost of healthcare is driven by too many factors to be overly sure about blaming any particular one, but the biggest one

is that American sacred cow: capitalism. While I believe in capitalism, IMHO the profit motive in healthcare is a huge factor killing Americans’ ability to get cost effective healthcare services and pharmaceuticals. At least, I wonder what would happen if there were fair and reasonable compensation

without the additional cost of dividends to shareholders. Lastly, as far as the whole capitalism-socialism debate goes, could we just please admit that insurance is a form of socializing the overall cost of ANY hazard. We are literally all contributing to the pot of money from which we hope to draw