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    7613 hours ago

    I don’t like the term “free healthcare”, because most of us would be paying for it in taxes, it would be more accurate to call it “socialized healthcare”.

    Saying “I want free healthcare” allows the media to twist your words and make you look like some “entitled brat” that “want everything for free”.

    • @Demdaru
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      21 hour ago

      Or ya know, simply Public Healthcare. Because it’s for public. End of topic.

    • @dohpaz42
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      4812 hours ago

      Keep it simple and call it “healthcare”. No need to qualify it with anything.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 hour ago

        It healthcare has a own risk (literal translation, I’m not sure about the English term) in which the first costs are out of pocket until you reach a certain amount (400-800 depending on your insurance package).

        So it’s not ‘free’ as you don’t pay for all of it, but you can’t go into crippling debt over medical payments.

      • @[email protected]
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        2711 hours ago

        The ones who still think Obamacare and ACA are different things definitely need a catchy label and marketing if they’re gonna vote for it.

        Or just lie to them, their own leaders have learned it doesn’t matter what you tell them. Call it the “everyone gets a puppy” Bill or whatever. Then tell them they got a free puppy. They won’t know they didn’t.

        • @halcyoncmdr
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          They won’t know they didn’t.

          We have concepts for a puppy.

        • @[email protected]
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          910 hours ago

          This is exactly what we need to do. Its literally the only way to combat a populace that simply does not want to be educated. Just fuckin lie, then post your actual platform online. People who actually care will read it, everyone else will think that the dems are campaigning on eliminating the sun to cool the earth during the summer, and during the winter well just tow a new sun to orbit.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 hours ago

        Counter-point: calling it universal/single-payer distinguishes it from what we have now. Which I would argue isn’t actually healthcare, at least by modern standards in other countries…

        • @[email protected]
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          510 hours ago

          Yeah, we don’t have healthcare. We have profit-motivated health insurance. We pay in case we get injured or sick, and they only profit if they find a legitimate way to not cover us when we get injured or sick, so they try their damnedest to do that.

    • NaibofTabr
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      1813 hours ago

      But that sounds like socialism! We can’t have that!

      • snooggums
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        812 hours ago

        That would be like having some kind of socially based security!

    • @withabeard
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      1613 hours ago

      Single payer healthcare is fine.

      The single payer is the government

        • queermunist she/her
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          39 hours ago

          The government doesn’t get money from taxes. It prints money, the taxes are how it removes money from circulation.

    • @[email protected]
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      1012 hours ago

      Thats the problem. The media and too much of the usa wouldnt accept “socialized healthcare” becuase that sounds like socialism and enough people arent educated enough to know what that really means

        • @[email protected]
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          310 hours ago

          Medicare for all is so easy too.

          Like literally just adding “for all” to the existing system.

          And nixing health insurance companies. It’s a win win!

    • @surewhynotlem
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      1112 hours ago

      Freedom Care! Patriot Care!

      Name it whatever. How do we get it?