New Monmouth poll shows primary voters confused about public option vs Medicare For All

[PatrickforO]

15. It's kind of a joke, you know, and the joke is on all of us.

Many of you have heard me say how I feel about my current employer-provided shitty, rationed healthcare with financially crippling copays, and my Delta Dental that is so chintzy that both of us have had to defer dental work we really need because we cannot afford it.

Yet, the greedheads in big pharma and the health insurance industry continue to buy our politicians and fight tooth and nail to eke out the uttermost farthing of profit.

Profit IS a dirty word when it comes to healthcare, prisons, and other public goods.

No, there's only one reason this thing we all need and we should have done long ago has not been done yet.

Greed. Corporate greed. Shareholder primacy. Profit over people. That is what it is. And it is unconscionable.

Healthcare for all is a moral issue. We should have it NOW, and you know what? We could afford it if we weren't spending nearly three quarters of a trillion on war. We spend more on - well, the euphemism is 'defense' - than the next TEN countries behind us. We have 200,000 pairs of 'boots on the ground' in nearly 170 countries. We even have a shiny new space force!

And you know what? That's shit to me. It doesn't help me or my family in the least.

I WANT HEALTHCARE NOW. I WANT YOU TO RAISE TAXES AND COVER ME AND EVERY OTHER AMERICAN WITH MEDICARE.

There is no reason, nor is there any excuse for not doing this - only corporate greed. That is the only thing standing in the way - the FEAR of our politicians that they won't get elected if they propose this solution that ALL OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS ENJOY. Why don't we get it?

Greed. Lobbies. Citizens United. Shits like Lindsey Graham and Moscow Mitch. Shits like Donald Trump.

Now we have our field of candidates, and people are confused because the FUCKING MEDIA DOESN'T report ANYTHING without some twist to generate controversy. We'll never get the story from them. So, yeah, people are confused.

And you know what? Greed will fucking win. It wins every time. Every. Fucking. Time. Some pasty old guy in a pinstripe suit grasping with liver spotted old hands after more profits. Doesn't matter if we suffer and die.

So, the people overwhelmingly want to not worry about healthcare. They don't want to be wheeled through the collections department on the way to surgery. They don't want to die because they can't afford to pay for a fucking operation or lifesaving drugs.

What will we get out of this, finally? Well, the greed heads will fight and fight and fight and lie and lie and lie and there will be commercial after lying commercial intoning how the gummint shouldn't run your healthcare. So what we get will be diluted. If we have any luck at all, we'll get a public option, but there will be literally millions and millions of dollars in dark money lined up to prevent us from getting that. For sure.

In the meantime I get to watch my wife live in a hell of chronic pain because we have shitty, rationed healthcare with financially crippling copays.

You see why I like Warren? AOC? EVERYBODY who advocates Medicare for all???