Health care is a human right.

[Uncle Joe]

Link to tweet

[guillaumeb]

1. It is, in many countries.

But here, profit comes first for the GOP.

[KSNY]

2. Yup

[lapucelle]

3. Democrats already know this. It has been a core Democratic Party value since the 1990s.

It was part of the 2016 platform.

Securing Universal Health Care
Democrats believe that health care is a right, not a privilege, and our health care system should put people before profits. Thanks to the hard work of President Obama and Democrats in Congress, we took a critically important step toward the goal of universal health care by passing the Affordable Care Act, which has covered 20 million more Americans and ensured millions more will never be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. Democrats will never falter in our generations-long fight to guarantee health care as a fundamental right for every American.

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016_DNC_Platform.pdf

[BidenBacker]

5. Since way before the 1990s

https://www.history.com/news/harry-truman-universal-health-care

[lapucelle]

6. Yes, indeed. The idea is so much a part of the Democratic Party legacy

that it seems odd that some people think it's a new concept.

[BidenBacker]

8. Doesn't help

that medical organizations like the AMA have long opposed the idea.

I guess Republican doctors didn't want to have to pay a few more bucks for their golf fees.

[TwilightZone]

4. Yep, as noted by the original Medicare For All Act, introduced by John Conyers in 2003.

aka, the United States National Health Care Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Health_Care_Act

[lapucelle]

7. Conyers introduced that bill in every single session of Congress right up until 2019.

[TwilightZone]

9. Yep, and Sanders 2017 bill was a parallel bill.

Introduced 14 years later. Hmm.

[William769]

10. Thank God Bernie is carrying the message of Democrats past, present and future!

[lapucelle]

11. Also in the 2016 Democratic Party platform.

Preventing Gun Violence
With 33,000 Americans dying every year, Democrats believe that we must finally take sensible action to address gun violence. While responsible gun ownership is part of the fabric of many communities, too many families in America have suffered from gun violence. We can respect the rights of responsible gun owners while keeping our communities safe.

To build on the success of the lifesaving Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, we will expand and strengthen background checks and close dangerous loopholes in our current laws; repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) to revoke the dangerous legal immunity protections gun makers and sellers now enjoy;

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2016_DNC_Platform.pdf

[BeckyDem]

12. A vote for Bernie is a vote for the people.

House of Cards
How Joe Biden helped build a financial system that’s great for Delaware banks and terrible for the rest of us.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/biden-bankruptcy-president/



What is a Women's Issue? Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, and Other Gender-Neutral Topics

Harvard Women's Law Journal, Vol. 25, Spring 2002

39 Pages Posted: 19 Jun 2002
Elizabeth Warren

Harvard Law School
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=310544

[Recursion]

14. So are food, shelter, and clothing, but we don't nationalize those

Agreeing to that principle doesn't mean agreeing to a particular plan to address it.

[Gothmog]

15. Switzerland rejects single-payer in landslide, keeps its version of Obamacare

Link to tweet

Swiss voters resoundingly rejected a proposal to move the country to a single-payer system on Sunday. Instead, the country will keep its private health insurance system, which looks a whole lot like Obamacare.

Two-thirds of Swiss voters opposed creating a state-run health plan in the national referendum. The issue was put to a vote after Swiss campaigners gathered more than 100,000 signatures, the threshold for getting a national vote; some initial polls in 2013 had shown strong support for a state-run system.

For a country with a relatively small population (8 million), Switzerland comes up a shocking amount in debates over American health care. That's probably because the Swiss health care system looks pretty similar to the one Obamacare sets up.

Since 1996, Switzerland has required all residents purchase coverage through an individual mandate. "If you move to Switzerland, you have three months to buy coverage and it's retroactive to your arrival," Aaron Carroll explains in his excellent video primer on the Swiss health care system.

Swiss residents buy coverage from private health insurance plans, who compete for their business. The average monthly premium for adults, in American dollars, was $329 in 2013. There are no pre-existing conditions in Switzerland; insurers are only allowed to vary premiums based on age, charging different rates for children under 18, young adults between 19 and 25, and adults over 25.