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Proud Liberal Dem

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12. Access don't mean nothing

Mon Mar 13, 2017, 11:21 AM

Mar 2017

if you don't have the money to actually, you know, ACCESS it. I don't understand how so many people- and everybody has had to interact with a hospital and/or doctor at some point- know how expensive medical care, insurance, etc. is and complain (rightly) about how bad it is, yet they just seem to accept it just as an unmovable and unchangeable "fact of life" that they HAVE to accept. Many people, even when faced with evidence about how other countries' healthcare systems cover everybody equally, cheaper, and more efficiently than our system, eagerly buy into Republican lies and distortions about how these other countries' systems work (they have some flaws but are still light-years ahead of us) and buy into arguments that we shouldn't want any of that European-style "socialism" here.

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Juan Williams: An unpleasant 'TrumpCare' Surprise [View all] PsychoBabble Mar 2017 OP

I don't believe 45care will help Americans bdamomma Mar 2017 #1

That's because it is Don-T-Care / DonTcare / Don'Tcare. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #20

I agree, but Democrats need to get out there and make sure that people understand it. Caliman73 Mar 2017 #2

I agree and even on DU I got flak about the need for Dems to run ads against new GOP ads flamingdem Mar 2017 #4

And the flak I got - very common here on DU - is that it's a waste of time to educate deplorables flamingdem Mar 2017 #5

True. Caliman73 Mar 2017 #10

Ceding the info battlefield is never a good plan n2doc Mar 2017 #13

Exactly, the story has to be told very clearly and that includes pointing out RW lies flamingdem Mar 2017 #14

Read last night, not sure where,I was falling asleep, that cancer patients are notdarkyet Mar 2017 #18

Ads are good DownriverDem Mar 2017 #19

Yes, I have recurring donations to DNC and DCCC Fast Walker 52 Mar 2017 #23

+1. Now more than ever, ACA needs to be widely known as ObamaCare. Contrast with GOP greatest. nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #21

The hard part will be getting Trumplodytes to believe the truth... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #3

And that's the way that they like it Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2017 #7

But we all have access to the best care in the world... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #9

Access don't mean nothing Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2017 #12

This is a TERRIFIC point. calimary Mar 2017 #28

Like Someone Here Said Last Week (I Think) ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #29

just pausing here to say how amazingly awesome a word Trumplodytes is ProfessorPlum Mar 2017 #11

Yes, deeply underfunding the risk corridors vlyons Mar 2017 #6

He's not worried about the truth Renew Deal Mar 2017 #8

Talk it into the ground and blame the failure on the other side. Baitball Blogger Mar 2017 #15

Are there any pleasant surprises in the TrumpCare proposal? gratuitous Mar 2017 #16

I don't understand why the media and the Democrats don't start telling the public....... Jim Beard Mar 2017 #30

That's not Trump's plan. Orrex Mar 2017 #17

since conservatives own a large swath of the media, they will have no problem getting that message Fast Walker 52 Mar 2017 #22

Yes. Sadly, they've mastered the art. Orrex Mar 2017 #24

"Half of a century" huh, maybe John Birch? Jim Beard Mar 2017 #31

While Williams is right NewJeffCT Mar 2017 #25

If a republican proposed it you know gopiscrap Mar 2017 #26

If he were smart he'd do the same thing he's doing with the current economy Johonny Mar 2017 #27