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This myth of freedom and choice sounds wonderful til you realize your boss has the freedom and choice to fire you from this union job.
It's a trap for progressives to try to talk about healthcare as some sort of free market like they're talking about tvs or cell phones. Healthcare is a necessity and there's very little choice when you're actually sick. You need treatment and you need it to not bankrupt you
And the so-called "market" for healthcare is so opaque, there are few if any perfectly informed consumers. And no one can predict what healthcare they'll need in the future.
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I get why everyone gets mad when rich person X gets a short sentence and poor person of color Y gets a long one. The answer isn't for X to get more; it's for both of them to get less (or even none!!!) We should level down not up.
Americans have become desensitized to how much we lock people up. Prisons and jails are not the answer to every bad thing everyone does, but we've come to use them to address nearly every societal ill.
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I imagine there's some comfort in imagining a future without racism and projecting that onto the present. Thinking if we just deny the truth, it doesn't exist. If history is erased, we don't have to deal with its consequences. However...
Far too many people don't have the luxury of closing their eyes and ears. They feel it in their lives and can't act like what they see and know doesn't exist.
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#HealthCare #ForTheRecord My story...
No one cared when Obamanation took my health care.
My family and I still have no insurance - we don't qualify under ACA giveaways.
Let EVERYONE pay the same price I did.
We have to pay cash or not go + $700 per person PENALTY on taxes!
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