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In reply to the discussion: It always amuses me when we hear "that's not who we are as a nation" [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)unable to improve your health insurance or your practitioners.
I doubt it'd change things for you, or raise American healthcare out of its third world slough in your mind, but for what it's worth Democrats are trying to add hearing, vision, and dental to Medicare. They of course really need to be added to national health insurance available to all, but please note that we would have done that long ago if we'd created national health insurance...long ago. Like in the 1990s when Democrats were busy doing just that but most Americans decided they were too satisfied with what they had to change it.
Ultimately it's always up to us. When too many set their standards low, that's what they get, and when the stakes are big too often everyone has to live with it.