cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40521677
Helena Addison
Dec 18, 2025Between the (likely) expiration of the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies, cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, and the decade-long efforts to undermine and dismantle the ACA, the casualties and costs of our current healthcare system continue to grow as Americans continue to wait for a better option. Nearly 45,000 Americans aged 17-65 die each year due to lack of insurance, a number that could rise to over 51,000 preventable deaths in the coming years.
Yet, the Senate has failed to pass either healthcare plan proposed to keep health insurance premiums from skyrocketing in the New Year and the Medicare for All bill introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and US Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) in April 2025 has not advanced in Congress. Ideas like Medicare for All or universal healthcare often make eyes roll. “That’s unrealistic,” we’re told.
You need a workforce who don’t have choices, not smart enough to know you’ve screwed them over, but smart enough to make you money, and constantly on the verge of ruin where they can’t risk what little you’ve allowed them to have. Your statement is but one block of suppression stacked on our shoulders.
Let’s consolidate corporations, let’s ruin social safety nets, let’s shame intelligence and embrace ignorance, let’s change the public opinion with constant news bites yelled loud and often.
Make people worried about egg prices and not the enshitification of our food supply as a whole. Gas prices instead of letting people ask why our whole infrastructure is based on cars. Drug prices are too high instead of why is Goldman Sacks asking: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’ https://share.google/Xui2ooSBQaH8SEwBZ
You need people focused on the pen tip not what it’s writing.
Rant over, sorry.