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In 2017, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress tried to eviscerate the A.C.A. and almost succeeded in passing a bill that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would have left 22 million more Americans uninsured by 2026. There’s every reason to believe that if the G.O.P. wins control of Congress and the White House in November, it will once again try to bring back the bad old days of health coverage. And it will probably succeed, since it failed in 2017 only thanks to a principled stand by John McCain — something unlikely to happen in today’s Republican Party, where slavish obedience to Trump has become almost universal.
If you want to preserve that access to health insurance, it’s worth checking your voter registration, getting involved as a volunteer for the Democrats and doing what you can afford to provide financial support
Germany has had universal health care since 1883. The model they used is still called the Bismark model and is still used in some places today, even tho Germany moved away from that model.
Universal health care has existed in the western world since before Washington (my state) was admitted to the union.
Insurance is the only industry that becomes more efficient when scaled larger (larger pool, less risk). Every argument against M4A is flat out lying done by profiteers - as evil an opinion as any other to ever exist and I’ll die on that hill…prematurely since I don’t have adequate health insurance.