If there is one thing you watch today, make it this.

[Rubyshoo]

Link to tweet

[central scrutinizer]

1. Spot on

Without the Affordable Care Act, I’d be bankrupt. My wife was laid off and lost her union health insurance so we signed up for an ACA plan on January 1. On April 15 she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died 11 months later. We had out of pocket expenses of a few thousand but otherwise nothing would have been covered as a preexisting condition.

[Sugarcoated]

3. I'm so sorry for the loss of your wife

I lost my sister to colon cancer, she was 36. Cancer sucks

[hlthe2b]

2. I count myself among the (sadly) millions who have been in her shoes--for both parents and both

with horrible contracted end-of-life episodes.

Very poignant.

[Rubyshoo]

4. Me Too...

[quaint]

5. All family. We hurt with them.

[Warpy]

6. Thank Nixon

His buddy Kaiser wanted to get richer quicker so Nixon persuaded Congress to take health insurance out of the public utility sphere, where it was regulated and costs were being contained, and put it into the for-profit sphere, loosely regulated, no cost containment, decreased service as profits were sucked out of the system, a mess only a Reoybkucan could love, even though they're getting burned by it, too.

They had the unmitigated gall to call it REFORM.

[ShazzieB]

13. Holy crap, I did not know any of this! 🤯

I already knew Richard "I am not a crooK" Noxon was responsible for a lot of bad things, but this is another order of magnitude when you think about how much human differing that has caused.

And yet, I still believe that TSF is even worse!

[Warpy]

14. Kaiser sold it as managed care that would keep people healthy and cut costs

We all know how that worked out, overworked primary care doctors acting as gatekeepers rather than doctors, months to see a specialist, who had to be within the system, lots of denial of care, and fucking few programs to try to keep anyone healthier beyond pamphlets on how to stop smoking.

All those assholes could see were dollar signs and no regulators to answer to.

[CommonHumanity]

7. Somebody make this into a TV spot

Please!

[LaMouffette]

8. Thank you for posting this, Rubyshoo. What we are witnessing right now with Kamala is the triumph of love over hate,

concern for others over indifference, compassion over contempt.

Her goodness is throwing a gigantic spotlight on the hatefulness of Trump and the GOP.

I hope that the Trump supporters who have fallen under his spell will be jolted out of their allegiance to him by the sheer power of the love they are witnessing on the part of us Democrats.

Y'know what it's like? It's like in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" when the Grinch is perched on the cliff, gleefully waiting for the Who's of Whoville to wake up, see their Christmas presents are gone, and be absolutely devastated.

Instead, they clasp hands and sing. And the Grinch's heart grows I forget how many sizes bigger.

I hope that happens with Trump's supporters, too. I know, pretty naive on my part, but I can hope.

[Bundbuster]

9. That's OK Kamala, I teared up too.

[jayschool2013]

10. The journalist is Ady Barkan

From Wikipedia:

Ohad "Ady" Barkan (Hebrew: אדי ברקן; December 18, 1983 – November 1, 2023) was an American lawyer and activist. He was co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC[1] and was an organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy, where he led the Fed Up campaign.[2] Barkan confronted Senator Jeff Flake on a plane in 2017, asking him to "be a hero" and vote no on a tax bill that threatened cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.[3]

Barkan, who was diagnosed with the terminal neurodegenerative disease ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in 2016 shortly after the birth of his son, was called "the most powerful activist in America" in a headline from 2019 in Politico Magazine.[3] In 2020, he was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[4][5]

[AZ8theist]

11. You think Dotard ever cried over anything?

I mean, other than losing money on some shitty deal.....

[Martin68]

12. Beautiful, and right on the money. I like the way the platform is being communicated, and it is such a good one.