Call me mad, but I'm still mad that Trump didn't choke to death on his own fluids because of COVID.
How long until you idiots realize that COVID isn't that exceptionally lethal? I've kept myself drunk with all the "I hope you catch COVID" posts out there even though said people making the curse seem not to realize that... it probably won't harm the target.
See, that sort of fearmongering about Trump may have worked in 2016. But it's been 4 years and the worst part of Trump's presidency has been the COVID crisis (which really wasn't his fault and even though he didn't handle it great, he did the best anyone could do in short notice) and the constant nagging of the political/entertainment/academic classes. But neither of those are really his fault. You would think they would motivate people with something other than the same basic bullshit they've been trying to project into reality for 4 years and failing at it.
Don't forget he also had to handle it with the media and rest of government fighting him every step of the way.
#never4get
A standardized government plan for low income citizens AND the option to keep your provider would help matters. It doesn't help that the people running the health industry are gouging prices with no oversight whatsoever. No president has addressed that, not even Trump. COVID isn't helping matters with that either.
"gouging"? Oh we're going to need to go over the basics of price signalling in this thread aren't we...
Untrue.
Trump has been fighting for transparency laws in medicine. One of the huge problems in the overall medical industry is that prices are not made transparent and oftentimes levied on the patient after treatment has already been made. How often have you heard of people needing emergency care only to wind up getting a bill two weeks later for tens of thousands of dollars? Or people who go to the doctor (which already costs roughly $100 for a basic checkup if you don't have a plan that provides a co-pay deduction-- which, incidentally, the ACA Bronze plan does not provide) are given a prescription which itself costs hundreds of dollars without insurance?
He's been fighting to lower drug costs since he got into office. He's the only guy who correctly identified that a huge issue with drug costs in America is that we subsidize literally the rest of the free world-- their cost of their socialized medicine is largely funded by the United States. Back when Trump first came into office he pissed off a lot of Europe by saying that if they actually paid their fair share of drug costs, America's rampant drug expenses would be massively reduced. I remember Germany in particular saying that wasn't fair.
And yes, at the end of last year he managed to sign the United States up for the standardized pricing list that the rest of the fucking planet benefits from and which, for some reason, nobody before him had thought to do.
I used to do physical inventories for pharmacies. I've since moved on so I haven't seen the direct impact of that (if it's gone into effect yet), but I did watch retail drug prices under Obama and Trump. After the ACA passed, pharmaceutical prices went through the roof -- double or triple the previous cost within a few months -- because suddenly everybody was forced to get insurance, and insurance companies naturally obfuscate the actual price of drugs (you're told what your payment is after insurance, and if you don't bother looking you won't see the "You paid $30.00 / You saved $750.00" (and I've seen much more absurd differentials). I would look at acquisition costs versus upcharge and there were some drugs that cost a few dollars to buy and retailed at seventy, or cost seventy to buy and retailed at over $1000.00. And they kept spiraling out of control, until the ACA was hobbled and the insurance companies didn't have a government mandate that allowed them to bullshit the people while gouging the country.
This isn't the only problem -- people have brought up before that the reason emergency rooms are so catastrophically expensive is that they have to pay for people who wander in off the streets, milk the services, and then can never been contacted to settle the bill -- but Trump is the only person in government that I've ever heard who decided not to bandage the problem (which is all socialized medicine is-- throwing more money at it without figuring out why it needs so much money in the first place) and actually looked at why the wound was festering.
Thing is, a lot of people have very significant interest in promoting things like the ACA -- insurance companies being able to charge whatever the fuck they want because everybody is forced to pay in, Rx manufacturers and distributors being able to charge whatever the fuck they want because everybody is forced to pay in, politicians who buoy themselves on the promise of free-free-free and directly benefit from shackling people to the government teat to keep them in power indefinitely -- so even with all the best intentions in the world he's fighting against a lot of forces. It doesn't help that the opposition keeps saying he has 'no plan' because technically no, Trump doesn't have a plan like the ACA or Bidencare, he's trying to find actual solutions that won't require a government plan.
And also pass enough regulatory laws that insurance companies can't discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. They keep screaming that destroying the ACA will cause all these people to lose their health coverage without mentioning that you don't need a five-thousand page monster of a bill to pass a law that makes that illegal. I'm pretty sure that is Trump's plan, to just kill the shambling monster and sign clean laws that implement the only parts of it that actually help common people, but because it's not in a huge government takeover plan it doesn't count.
A lot good in this, but be careful about jumping on "pre-existing" conditions easy solution. Even a simple law will go bad in spectacular fashion.
What does other countries health care plans have to do with us? Meaning how are we personally affected with our inflated health care costs because Europe offers them at a discount?
So the countries that brag about their free healthcare, WE'RE actually the reason ours sucks and they reap the benefits?
Because we have pharamcies here?
Ok let's put this this way with simple numbers.
Company FeelGoodInc makes drug X. It cost $100 to make the drug. Just period, production etc, $100.
FeelGoodInc goes to Britain and says, "Here, buy some X!" Britain says, "Ok, but we're going to pay you $75 for the drug." FeelGoodInc sighs, "Well it's better than nothing. We'll charge America $125 then.
Then they go to France and say, "Here buy some X!" France says, "Ok, but we're not paying more than the Brits, so here's $75." - So now America has to pay $150 for X.
And again, this is with NO profit, just straight up production cost. Then you have say... Germany who just declares, "Nah we're going to have one of our factories make X, and we don't have to pay for any of the research, development, or testing." Now they're getting $0 for the drug. They might lose even more since now markets that might have bought X, can buy Germany's knock off X who doesn't have to worry about getting the funds back spent on discovering the drug in the first place.
The problem is, if America goes, "You know, we're just going to be like everyone else and just pay you $75 for X." Then FeelGoodInc will point out that they don't have the funds to make X at a loss, and so will shut down. Now either nobody gets X, or they only get the German knock off and no more drugs are bothered to be made because it's literally burning money doing so. Once upon a time FeelGoodInc may have made that COVID vaccine, but well... now they're not around. Hope you found it worth it.
order is given to install Harris as President. Whether they use the current scandals with Hunter as the kill shot or just 25th Amendment to kill shot Biden or just straight up have him murdered in cold blood to false flag up shit to allow Harris to go full Rawanda in America
At Biden's age why murder him when you can just have an intern jump out and shout "boo"?
Though finally I will say, if Trump does lose then I hope he does another season of the Apprentice.
I agree - but only if the apprentice is then all up and coming politicians.
"Make America Great Always" maybe?
Making America Glorious Always
