Thanks MAGA, you turned the USA into a massive fucked up dumpster fire.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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And still Trump has a 33% approval rate. I mean who tf are those people? Are they all so fckn rich that they don't care about increased medical costs? Or gas prices? Or inflation? Or stagnating economy? Those aren't some abstract politics, those are things u feel in ur everyday live...
Some of them are willing to make their own lives worse as long as it hurts the people they hate
Some of them are just that oblivious to how politics affects their lives
They just want to hurt the people they hate
If I can't afford insurance then the god-damned...(Insert something ignorant hateful and untrue) Motherfuckers better not either.
From what I've heard from individuals who believe in Trump is.
- They don't want to pay others medical bills
- There's too many people depending on the government
- What about the uks hospital wait lines
- That's socialism and that's bad, look at Cuba
- People should get a job with insurance
- Big pharma already makes too much money
Some of these people I consider smart people, others I wouldn't say that about. These all seem pretty shallow arguments against Medicare for all our even the aca. The other trope is people don't know that the aca is Obamacare and them buying on the market is the ACA in action. Besides the pharma argument, I haven't heard a convincing argument against the wealthiest country in the world providing healthcare to it's citizens, imo.
The thing I find annoying is that none of them are of the opinion that we should outlaw health insurance companies and put price controls on medicine and services which would probably be unironically cheaper for everyone at this point as well.
What bothers me most is those who rely on government help and yet look down on others in the same position and want government help taken away. The hypocrisy is the most infuriating part for me. When people don't recognize that they're not special from the perspective of the rest of society and don't apply the same rules to themselves as everyone else
I'm very likely to become one of those people without health insurance.
The situation this year was pretty abysmal. The ACA plans increased in price dramatically, while also cutting back on coverage and benefits. The loss of the subsidies was a double whammy.
I went ahead and signed up for insurance this year, but it was practically a coin flip for me at the end and I'm half convinced I fell for the sunk cost fallacy. Basically, I had to spend so much time comparing plans, looking at what was covered, figuring out if I could actually afford the premiums, comparing my estimated total costs (which is not really truly possible because you literally cannot get your hands on that information), etc that it felt like I needed to sign up just so that the whole process wasn't a waste of time.
In the end, I went with a plan that said it covered my regular prescriptions and for which my current providers were in-network. Only thing is, when it came time to actually get my prescriptions filled, turns out they don't actually cover them all like they stated when I signed up. Some required prior authorization, and when my provider tried to get that, it was denied. So now I pay out of pocket for that on top of having to pay the health insurance premiums.
And in the end, this is kind of a situation where as bad as 2026 is for health insurance coverage / plans, the sad thing is, this is probably as good as it'll ever be from here on out until working class folks actually start organizing and working together (across party lines) to change things. So, good luck with that in the USA.
Yeah, we're all having the day Idiot America voted for.
Americans voted for morons that vowed to replace the ACA with nothing and that's exactly what we're getting.
Those meddling Democrats keep getting in the way! Every piece of legislation that is brought forth to replace the ACA is voted down by them!
— some maga asshole somewhere probably.
replace Obamacare is voted down by them!
It won't be the ACA until they can't see a doctor and then it'll be "Why did those Democrats get rid of the ACA and take away my healthcare! But thank God the Republicans got rid of Obamacare at least".
Excuse me, but I have it on good authority¹ that they'll have a plan in two weeks. You can't wait two weeks for them to come up with a plan? C'mon, two weeks!
¹ What do you mean Trump isn't a good authority?
Apparently having a concept of a plan is perfectly fine for Idiot America.
ahhh, "concept of a plan" slipped my mind. heh. Thank you for the reminder.
And people vote for that shit! D:
Say what you will about them, their story is consistent. They're saying it'll be ready in two weeks, just like they were last week, and by fuck that's what they'll say next week
And all of these 8 million will never vote Republican again, right? RIGHT?
A few million that lost their healthcare were children.
So not many votes lost for the gop. Wonder if that was part of their calculation
They want to keep people busy and desperate enough to not even bother voting. They want people focused on surviving so they can continue to break this country down and profit from it.
Trump will blame Biden, and that will be the end of it in their minds.
How many of them will even hear of this number?
You know the answer: The Republicans who were impacted will line up and vote for the only party they feel¹ cares about them at all, even though they feel that neither party truly cares about them.
Fucking fascist propaganda for decades has done its dirty work well.
¹ emphasis on "feel"
That’s like 2% of the nation, and elections are split by less than 1% so I would say yep, for sure, FOR SURE that’s lights out for the GOP. I mean people always vote their interests, right Anakain?
I just read that 92% of Americans are skipping medical appointments because they can't pay for them.
But their billionaires have more billions than they ever had in their life. Trickle down economics baby!
That's where the money went. It sure didn't go to pay down the national debt.
Only this time it might have trickled up in the form of tariffs and what nots
My partner's healthcare coverage would cost like $2000 a month for her and myself if she bought in. That's a huge chunk of her pay. I don't know how people are doing this shit with kids and things because not only did the coverage get shittier over time, the premiums have gone through the fucking roof.
The only affordable way to do this IMO is for each person in the household to have a full-time insurance providing job because the insurance for the employee themselves is a fraction of the cost of even covering themselves plus a spouse. Completely ridiculous.
What confuses me is
- why I am not hearing about any protests?
- What exactly is opposition/democrats doing?
- What are those trade unions?
This has been going in US for a while and time for some reaction from people has been already exceed. But I hear nothing.
Is it algorithms and media hiding it?
Are you actively looking for information about protests?
The media doesn't generally cover them, particularly small protests and/or those opposed to the media ownership's political persuasion. This applies not only to traditional media platforms, but modern ones as well. You won't find much on them if you're only looking here on Lemmy. For one, the user base is so small and not US-centric, so you'll find very little organizing / advertising going on here for that sort of thing. Additionally, a huge portion of the Lemmy user base is actively hostile to any methodology that doesn't involve murder.
Currently, the opposition/democrats are a minority party at the federal level, as Republicans control all 3 branches of the federal government. That certainly limits what they can achieve from a legislative, executive, or judicial standpoint.
However, there's also a midterm election coming up, and being so close to the election, nearly all of these folks are investing a lot of time, effort, money, energy, etc towards getting more Democrats elected, fundraising, get out the vote, etc to help restore some power to the party. Without solid majorities in congress, I'm not sure what anybody thinks they can do.
At the state level, things are much more complicated. All of the states that have federal congressional elections coming up, the federal and state Democrat parties are going hard on getting out on the streets to canvass, phone bank, and motivate people to vote.
Local & county levels, it's much the same story. Though things like healthcare access (at the level and scope we're talking about) are usually not controlled at the county / local level. It's still important to get Democrats involved at this level and to support them, because you're essentially building the next generation of state and federal level politicians here.
As for social media, platforms like Meta and X are very biased and the big players are all pay-to-play. Democrats and left-leaning organizations generally receive only a fraction of the donations that conservative and right-leaning organizations receive, so the pay-to-play nature naturally drowns out the progressive / left-leaning outreach efforts there. Then there are places like Lemmy and Bluesky, but almost nobody uses those, so you don't see as much time or effort put into outreach on those platforms as it's often a waste of time.
As intended.
Yep. "I have concepts of a plan"... to leave millions of you without vital healthcare, letting you suffer more in illness, go broke, and die earlier.
Did that Yale study on universal healthcare saying it would save 114,000 lives a year factor in the Grand old Pedophile terrorist death cult cuts to our existing healthcare system? All the hospitals closing due to loss of funding? The deregulation of food and drug safety with all the recalls that will kill people? The data (pollution) centers that pollute...literally fucking everything, physical and metaphysical, resulting in debilitating physical and mental health issues?
On the plus side, ever since I was born I've been very slowly dying, the government has just helped me be ahead of schedule for a change.