Obamacare (ACA) was meant to remove the failures of health insurance to cover people. Cheaper policies really limited access, so the ACA added preventive care and improved hospital care. Before that, too many policies were described/designated as "you pretend to pay, we pretend to cover you," and if we catch a whiff of pre-existing conditions we will not cover you for any amount of money. Over the years it appears that the ruling has softened. Medicare does not cover anesthesia for in office procedures anymore, for instance. Still need the improvements expected that Congress would discuss and pass. So far, it seems like the donor class has won out. And, Workman's Compensation is nearly worse than no insurance at all, since it does not support current protocols for back injuries, for instance.
The only Democratic candidates that remotely addressed the class issue was Bernie and E. Warren... Biden & Harris...bidness as usual. Maybe the Demos will wake up...
Well, that’s not altogether true. President Biden is the most pro-union president in history passing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act alone. He used the DOL and NLRB to up the ante for workplace standard enforcement, forcing corporations to follow certain rules. He also infused $36b into the Teamsters Union pension plan. Remember pensions? The US economy has added more than 16 million jobs since Fuckleroy left office. Sander’s argument that the Democrats abandoned the working class doesn’t hold up. But sadly, even though the Harris campaign poured $200 million into ads that focused on her economic message with calls to end corporate price gouging, lower housing costs, cut middle-class taxes and protect Social Security and Medicare, the message fell on deaf ears. As far as addressing class inequality, his tax proposals have never made it through the quagmire of a GOP House. For 2025 he once again proposed (if we flipped the House and won the presidency) to increase taxes by nearly $5 trillion for corporations and for individuals with incomes above $400,000. Many of the president’s tax proposals, including a proposal to increase the corporate tax rate to 28% and impose a 25% minimum tax on certain high-income individuals, were included in previous proposals.
Obamacare (ACA) was meant to remove the failures of health insurance to cover people. Cheaper policies really limited access, so the ACA added preventive care and improved hospital care. Before that, too many policies were described/designated as "you pretend to pay, we pretend to cover you," and if we catch a whiff of pre-existing conditions we will not cover you for any amount of money. Over the years it appears that the ruling has softened. Medicare does not cover anesthesia for in office procedures anymore, for instance. Still need the improvements expected that Congress would discuss and pass. So far, it seems like the donor class has won out. And, Workman's Compensation is nearly worse than no insurance at all, since it does not support current protocols for back injuries, for instance.
The only Democratic candidates that remotely addressed the class issue was Bernie and E. Warren... Biden & Harris...bidness as usual. Maybe the Demos will wake up...
Well, that’s not altogether true. President Biden is the most pro-union president in history passing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act alone. He used the DOL and NLRB to up the ante for workplace standard enforcement, forcing corporations to follow certain rules. He also infused $36b into the Teamsters Union pension plan. Remember pensions? The US economy has added more than 16 million jobs since Fuckleroy left office. Sander’s argument that the Democrats abandoned the working class doesn’t hold up. But sadly, even though the Harris campaign poured $200 million into ads that focused on her economic message with calls to end corporate price gouging, lower housing costs, cut middle-class taxes and protect Social Security and Medicare, the message fell on deaf ears. As far as addressing class inequality, his tax proposals have never made it through the quagmire of a GOP House. For 2025 he once again proposed (if we flipped the House and won the presidency) to increase taxes by nearly $5 trillion for corporations and for individuals with incomes above $400,000. Many of the president’s tax proposals, including a proposal to increase the corporate tax rate to 28% and impose a 25% minimum tax on certain high-income individuals, were included in previous proposals.