Mammal

Most elected Democrats are against this. But hey, I’m sure Lesser Of Two Evils™ thinking is going to stop making things worse eventually.

Oops. That went over my head. LOL.

Oh Derp!!! X-P

My bad.

Medicade is a single-payer healthcare program that is almost entirely for the poor. (eg: People that insurance companies can’t squeeze money out of.)

Without Medicade most hospitals will go bankrupt - and what few social services & charities there are for the poor will be absolutely swamped to the point where they will be ineffective.

Moreover: Medicade prevents medical bills from forcing the poor from choosing between a rent & food and medication they need to live. So if Medicade gets gutted, the US homeless population is going to blow up.

Medicade is a piece of load-bearing social infrastructure that most Americans - who are not on Medicade and barely understand the difference between Medicare and Medicade - are blissfully unaware of it’s ramifications for the entire healthcare system.

Put another way: The only reason we don’t have hordes of people in the streets demanding universal healthcare - is because the poor have Medicade, so it’s in their best-interests to behave.

How would that work? They are both nuclear-armed states?

How’s that been working out over the last 40+ years?

The problem is that the ‘Not Perfect’ party refuses to actually fight or advocate for universal, popular policies. Instead, the "Not Perfect’ party sits on their hands, bullies their base, and waits for everything to collapse so that they are the default option.