Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’
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I don't have any medical debt at the moment, and I think there are probably some better long-term things we could spend our extremely valuable and limited political capital on, so naturally I strongly support this because I'm not a fucking inhuman monster.
Had me in the first half
That's how I felt about student debt. Especially the last part.
I was seeing red for a second...
Five people stopped reading half way through
Why, did they die of an easily treatable disease?
Okay, but just like student debt, it doesn't fix the actual problem. Bailing water out of a ship doesn't do much compared to fixing the fucking hole in the hull.
Sanders knows that and wants to do both. He mentioned in the statement quoted in the article.
He wants to have universal healthcare and wants cancel existing debt for anyone fucked by the current system.
That guy sounds awesome, we should have elected him president years ago!
I love how, whenever centrists kill some progressive policy, centrists are like "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," but let a progressive suggest actual incremental change toward something centrists don't want to do, and suddenly centrists want immediate perfection.
Don't let perfection block the path to progress.
Limit how much debt a person can have is a better solution.
"Don't let you ass block the path of my foot" - Red
It also doesn't stand a chance in hell of passing. It's grandstanding, if anything
A congresspersons job is to advance bills consistent with their platform, and the will of their constituents. talking about favoring some hypothetical bill is grandstanding. Actually building the thing and bringing it forward is the real deal.
Now, some bills have little to no chance of passing. This is one of those. But Bernie can't control who he sits next to.
Bernie doesn't do a ton of grandstanding. He's also one of the only senators who introduces bills that get bipartisan support sometimes. I really don't think he's introducing a bill he means to go nowhere
That and because Republicans control the House.
Hmm if there was only a plan a guy that rhymes with Ernie Manders tried to get passed for the past 20 years.
How is it going with the project of fixing the debt?
Btw those wood ships took on water all the time and had to run pumps every day. I find it amusing that a solution that worked for multiple hundreds of years thousands of times a day is used as an analogy for something not working. Hey did you know that human kidney rarely works pass the 110 years of operation mark?
I read that as "Bernie Sanders and Bo Katan" and was excited for a cool starwars crossover event
"People of the galaxy, I am once again requesting your vote for Republic Senate."
This is great. Ro Khanna seems like a bit of an idealist, which I like in a politician, especially one that introduces bills that can genuinely help people, and gives a good interview on an episode on the 5-4 podcast about fixing the supreme Court.
https://www.fivefourpod.com/episodes/how-to-fix-the-court-feat-rep-ro-khanna/
Good for them.