Anything but ~~metric~~ universal healthcare.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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"Best we can offer is a Republican created plan to offer insurance outside of employment and an additional tax if you don't/can't participate in it." ~Democrats
-- to make it less offensive to the Republicans and a handful of "moderate" Democrats so it stood a chance of actually becoming law. It didn't even pass in its original form due to a Republican led filibuster: the Bill's backers didn't have the votes to overcome it, so they had to make concessions. Unfortunately that's how Congress works.
The idea Democrats could have passed a bill for universal healthcare is absurd. Any serious attempt to pass it would have been shut down. The parties aren't homogeneous entities: they're made up of individuals with their own agendas.
I think you may be white washing what occurred at the time. Obama made concessions to appeal to Republicans but they weren't needed to pass the bill and none of them even voted for it in the end (apart from 1 House Republican). Democrats had a super majority at the time with 60 senate seats.
Best we can do is... [check notes]....
Fine you.
"Won't someone think of the billion dollar drug corporation? They're the real victims of this abuse of executive power!" - Republicans right now, probably.
"Seize" is a really weird term to apply to something that only exists as an idea. Especially an idea that only has meaning because governments actively enforce it. It would make more sense to say Biden plans to end enforcement of the relevant patents.
It seems like the language of the article is designed to paint Biden's plan in a bad light.
“When drug companies won’t sell taxpayer-funded drugs at reasonable prices, we will be prepared to allow other companies to provide those drugs for less,”
Cue the legal bickering over what counts as "reasonable". I think the definition is clear: the only reasonable price for medicine is the lowest possible price. And the only way to ensure that is to not award drug patents in the first place (at all, but especially if development was funded by taxpayers).
With the R's and D's history of both being completely owned by the same oligarchs in mind, this sounds like a framework that will be used to crush smaller pharmaceutical companies and give patents to the all ready huge ones... I might just be super critical, correct me if I'm wrong...
It's not like there is a cottage industry of small time pharmaceutical companies these days. The smaller ones that exist mostly just focus on making generic forms of drugs that jave expired patents.
Yes, true, but what i'm trying to ask is; is there any safeguard in the bill preventing it from being used to crush the few smaller ones?
“You’re killing me”! - Drug Companies “Good” -Me
He does this in time, I won't feel bad for voting for him just to stop Trump's immenant objective of Tyrrany of Obvious Lies and Theft.