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Kamala Harris economic plan to focus on groceries, housing and healthcare
(www.theguardian.com)
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Go back to mother Russia. Just off the top of my head with 30 seconds of thinking about it and no research:
Obama: Implemented "Obamacare" allowing millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions to get affordable healthcare for the first time.
Biden: Limits on predatory interest rates across the board. Limited Insulin prices.
Both of them have actively gone after people and businesses ripping of medicare which universally helps the working class through better care and lower taxes.
But sure, they've done NOTHING for the working class.
Give me a break. The ACA was a Republican drafted plan that did little more than cement the private insurance model in place. They allegedly went with this over single payer (like the rest of the planet) because they wanted to get Republicans on board and still zero Republicans voted for it and then they spent the next decade drafting bill after bill to repeal it. The only benefit that came out of that was the removal of the pre-existing clause and the ability to buy insurance off a marketplace when you didn't have a job. Actual insurance/healthcare prices have continued to skyrocket year after year and plenty of people are still filing for bankruptcy due to medical costs. Per capita, we're still paying the highest rates in the world and twice as much (in both public and private costs) when compared to the number two country for healthcare expenditures.
Limits on what predatory interest rates? You can go look at car loan rates for people with bad credit and they're 20% or more currently. Payday loan places can still charge 400% APR.
Limits on insulin prices is great but what about the million other drugs on the market? The fact that pharma companies can make a miniscule change to some old drug and then re-patent it and jack the price up 4000% is the issue not the cost of insulin. This wouldn't even be needed if we'd have gone single-payer 15 years ago. Treating the symptoms of the disease doesn't change the fact that you still have the disease.
During that time they've also handed out billions to mega corporations rather than doing anything directly to help the struggling working class. It's just more trickle-down bullshit.