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My wife has to take these three pills every morning so she doesn’t die. Next week, we find out whether or not our insurance will cover them. If not, that dish of pills will cost us $2100.

Who’s “we”?

It's crazy? No, it's systemic racism.

Maybe something like Tri Care or VA Healthcare...

Americans have been brainwashed, alright. It is pretty disgusting.

Because the ticket clippers in the health insurance industry who add no value, but have the ear of the GOP, don’t want to lose their bountiful meal ticket.

Other countries have universal health care and we are still in a place where people think we don't need or shouldn't have it

Thank you 😊

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Thirteen credit cards and she still passed. I'm sorry. That ain't nobody's idea of care.

Oh no, he would've been so much better off with unpaid medical bills.

Cannot imagine being in your situation. Hope you and your family get through this nightmare. Universal healthcare works for the people it serves. Wife entered ICU on Dec24 2024. Came home on Feb25 2025. Cost to us was just over $700 - for parking while visiting her.

That’s so cruel and despicable I’m sorry for your brother in law

US citizen who has lived in another country that has universal health care and it's an amazing experience! You feel "lighter" just knowing that you are not going to lose everything you have in order to pay for health care. Or have to choose between eating and seeing a doctor.

When Brits tell Americans we don't go bankrupt for health reasons they say what about your freedom...... A) what can you do I can't? B) what good is freedom if you're dead?

Tell me what's good about OBAMACARE

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Amen!!!🙏

Independent Media is hard at work to de-program the brainwashed in this country; people who don't trust legacy media in any form. And that's GOOD for the United States in so many, many ways.

But somehow it magically becomes a good thing once you turn 65.

It's crazy that so many have been brainwashed to think that the only acceptable universal health care plan is a 135 page, 35-year-old concept of a plan for 20% of the economy, from an 84 year old millionaire who's been on Capitol Hill for 35 years.

Just came back from the ER. I can't wait to see the bill

Americans have also been brainwashed to believe: a) they are free b) they are exceptional c) they have a democracy, d) they have real choices in their elections e) there's equal justice for all etc etc.

The only people that don’t want this are the ones lucky enough to have it…which essentially makes them someone that wants it!

Of course you’ve been brainwashed for that because the corporations the insurance companies with the power over the people who make the policy .They decided that making money off of your health is of importance to make them able to afford another super yacht or another holiday home 

It's socialist! Even worse, it's communist!

Why doesn’t his wife accept Medicare patients?

Australians laugh at Americans. We enjoy the lives that Americans dreamed of in the 1950s.

Red states sure do like taking government services and benefits though...

Interesting how in 2016, Bernie was considered insane for trying to convince voters we can have so much more, and now, we're all asking why not?

Heal the sick, ffs.

We? "They" as in ignorant right-wingers

Won't anyone think of the insurance corporate shareholders profit margins?!?

Dark Dystopian Times

Any thinking person would ask themselves, who loses if we have universal health care and what reasons do those opposed, have for not wanting it!

It’s crazy we think universal healthcare (UHC) is bad. It’s crazy we think UHC is expensive. It’s crazy we think UHC would increase taxes. It’s crazy we think UHC provides no lift to jobs or wages. It’s crazy we think UHC is radical or extreme. We’re quite crazy.

@rieckhoff.bsky.social

The easiest way to explain it is that we have "bookies" running the show, all you are doing is getting rid of him.

Your just a pure dumbass to believe a 100% comprehensive healthcare coverage system is bad !

standard for Healthcare with 100% coverage for all citizens. In the US 8% of all Americans had NO health insurance and that rose to over 11% of working age citizens. For that lack of coverage and for 49% of all Americans 'worrying' about healthcare coverage, the US over-paid 2.5Trillion$

Calm down and re-read the posts. The gold standard refers to the French and Swiss systems. The French being the best example of a Single Government Payer and the Swiss being the best example of 100% Non-Governmental Payer.

Not me.

Reminder to everyone bragging about their universal healthcare in developed countries: not to forget colonization, land theft, and erasure of Indigenous and the first dark-skinned peoples of those lands is how those countries were built. Universal healthcare is the ancient Indigenous practice.

Let’s never forget the origin of indoctrination against universal healthcare was the white American realization that Black Americans would be included. Read true history. Vilifying Black Americans on welfare, while white Americans gorged on GI bill, SNAP, white welfare benefits and the wealth gap.

The NHS is underfunded but loved in the UK. Our coverage is universal, and free. Per capita spend is well under half of that in the US, because we don't spend billions upon billions funding unneccessary bureaucrats and insurance greed companies who are a hindrance to good health, not a help.

As an Englishman who is only alive courtesy of free at point of use healthcare (NHS), I would suggest that it is a "good thing".

Here in Australia, we don't lose our house & life savings if we get sick. I prefer countries that don't fleece their citizens.

Cradle to death Medicare for all!

I'm heavily sleep deprived, yet have to drop everything to drive my 24yr old nephew 2hrs away to the hospital that likely botched his surgery because he's still in pain & an ambulance ride will cost over $1k... what healthcare system...

I grew up in the US. Left 36 years ago. In France since then. I'll never understand the US system. Why does the richest nation on earth do this to its citizens?

And brainwashed is the right word.

I believe that Medicare for all would be the most efficient way, at this point.

I don’t think anyone thinks it’s bad thing, we just want to see how it works as a sustainable program in a country that’s got 400 Million people in it which is a lot more than anywhere else that currently has universal health care

Americans spend five trillion a year on third-world healthcare. Some experts are saying that pharmaceuticals may be the leading cause of preventable death in the US. Not from misuse or abuse, but from wrong prescriptions, misdiagnosis, untested drugs, and interactions.

Yep, the other 37 industrialized countries across the world, that all have universal healthcare, are just a bunch of commies. 😜😜😜

I feel same. But our Canadian friends up there feel ours is better for some reason?Granted-it’s a small group “survey” in more rural area. Is there targeted misinformation going on there too? I just don’t know. Im scared for them- I hope they don’t go against their own interests, like we do here?…

I’m from the UK … IT’S GREAT 👍

Only in the USA baby!

Well, when state media, Fox unnews, & other far Right-White keeps propagandizing that universal healthcare is communist) socialist & then repeats that lie 24/7 into MAGA's skull, then they'll believe it. 🤬🇨🇦 America, start a campaign against disinformation/misinformation & how it harms humanity.

And despite all of this, Healthcare was one of the most impacted job losses last read. They are firing the people who have to deal with insurance...not the doctors nor nurses. B But probably the people responsible for disposal of the toxic shit....

Please thank the GOP for promoting the idea that Universal Healthcare is a bad thing! The GOP is still mad about the social reforms that came out the FDR ADMINISTRATION!

It makes me laugh when I see the media calling this guy a progressive. Taking care of Americans should not be considered a progressive idea.

Charlie brown had hoes

RepubliCONS for generations 👇👇👇👇👇👇

with your aversion to paying taxes in the US I can’t imagine how this will go anywhere

Most countries have dual system, public universal health care, paid by taxes, & and a variety of private options. A person can join both,

Just went for an X-ray on an arthritic toe, waited a couple of weeks for the appointment at minor hospital 6 miles away and paid £0000.00 for the privilege. Seems like advanced socialized medicine working well in Scotland (and who knows what my robotic protectomy bill would have been in the US?)

Worse, that everything needs to be for profit. And even worse, not a little bit of profit but as much as you can get. A cancer drug that costs 25 cents to make sold for over $1,000. And of course, we need the people at the top to earn lots more, I mean, the American way 🙄 Greed rules in America 🙄

The US is the ONLY member state of the OECD countries WITHOUT universal healthcare.

Of course it’s propaganda. Private healthcare is one of the biggest profit centers there is. Probably right up there with building planes, bombs, missiles, and war stuff.

Just goes to show how people can be brainwashed! Universal Healthcare is good and don't fool yourselves it won't be free.🇨🇦

This is all Musk and friends...

They are probably being funded by United Healthcare and beasts like that. They make SO much money from Americans in Premiums and co pays, YET they refuse to pay for damn nearly every thing our Drs says we NEED! It’s a crap system, don’t let them convince it’s working here IT IS NOT!

They can’t do damed thing about it Health care is sacred to Australians Not sure about super though

Convenient how the money shows up right when somebody wants your healthcare privatized.

I got the"longevity bonus" last year. Medicare. Premiums went from $1100/mo w/ $5K deductible (which meant I couldn't actually afford to use it) to $220/mo w/ deductibles covered by Part C plan. Every employer (currently paying >50% of prem if they provide benefit) could/would cover 100% of $220.

Universal Healthcare should be for all!! Enough of f$$@!+ery and just provide what all Americans have a right to! This country is soooo backwards!

why would free doctor visits, hospital stays, tests, treatments, etc. be a bad thing? 🇨🇦

I think Medicare for All is unaffordable (40 trillion debt) I think ——- + ———- + ———- is unaffordable too But I am voting Blue (I voted 2x for Trump) Not the Republicans and the LOSER @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com @abc7.bsky.social @houstonchronicle.com

AES's wife doesn't even accept Medicaid from patients in need of medical attention. He should sit down & have a talk with her too since he's so passionate about Universal Healthcare.

A lot of people aren’t brainwashed and very familiar with the benefits of what we could have and never will. Record numbers of Americans are becoming residents of other countries for this and a gazillion other reasons.

Every time it’s been brought up for many years it was called “socialism” and that was that. But younger generations aren’t buying into the bs. They’re smarter and more knowledgeable than previous generations who’d be dumb enough to buy insurance and not realize being taxed actually maths out cheaper

I love that for you! Hope I see it in the USA in my lifetime!!

My MAGAt parents genuinely think Universal Healthcare and healthcare for everyone means "illegals and ni---rs get health care and I don't get any."

Meanwhile most other Countries already have it are are happy with it.

Countries with some form of universal health care.

He’s right.

Is this a place to remind everyone that Israel has such a system...and we still give them over $30 million a day?

The sad thing is almost every Centrist Democrat voter who supported Harris and now Buttigieg are universal health care deniers too. This time and going forward a Democrat running on Obamacare or Medicare For All Who Want It, will lose big time. Elect Young Progressives Affordability Medicare4All

The damage of Trump and his loyal GOP is already incalculable in our nation and world-wide. Vote

I find it very difficult to understand why not all Americans are demanding universal healthcare. All I can say is try it and see if you still hate it after a year of worry free healthcare that’s paid for by your taxes seamlessly.

A refinement to this is that “they” have also convinced the masses that socialism for the monied class is good. “Too big to fail” is the term ponied out when banks make bad decisions, questionable auto manufacturers teeter on the verge. They call it “Trickle down economics” the lie of the Regan era.

Obscene payouts to CEO'S

Greatest issue is those that would lose huge bags of cash simply convince the small brained no-research public that universal health care would jack up their own taxes and cost them a few pennies, unlike the uber-rich who will lose said bags of overflowing ill gotten blood gains.

You are the victim of you own ignorance. Literally the whole developed world is showing you it works. But you, blinded by your superiority complex, choose to ignore the reality. Switch off the Fox news and wake up!

Huh?…how? My traditional Medicare is wonderful. For taxes less than what is now being paid in premiums to medical insurers we can have better care for everyone. No one is talking about a govt health system, just a govt insurance system. Medicare for all!

Republicans have convinced many Americans that we can't have nice things. We can! Tax corporations & the wealthy proportionally. Establish a bipartisan committee to research and plan how to make Universal Healthcare work.

The problem is the Republicunts are telling "the uneducated" that Trump loves, that immigrants are stealing healthcare. It feeds into the whole racist agenda that spoon feeds hate to the working class, "not with my tax dollars" crowd.

I think it is worth saying that most doctors and health care providers would actually benefit from "Medicare for all" The number of claims private health insurance wrongly denies results in physicians and other providers going unpaid. Insurers are not providing the benefits they are paid for.

Iwas triaged based on the results- I get it. I also know there is no magic to fix it. But im hlad im not a US citizen where I would have paid to go to the hospital, the CT scans, the shit they infused for the scans and paperwork - not mention whats to come. And yes im angry n scared I had a stroke!

Cell changed it to abatement - system was the word - hard to type with the vision I have