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nina's avatar

I love my Medicare. This is based on experience in US healthcare which includes direct care, admissions and discharge planning and as a decision maker for private healthcare providers. Medicare is not perfect but add a supplement and there is no better healthcare coverage in America. It should, however, be better.

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Carl Maldonado's avatar

Old Joe doesn't matter. Young Kamala does. And mostly she doesn't matter, the opinions of the utopia enforcing billionaires who control her are what matters. I think they primarily want to feel good about themselves. That will come from the moral thrill they will get from inflicting woke on us all and the primitive thrill of exercising their power in doing so.

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Rick S's avatar

But Mickey is Biden woke enough and quick enough on his feet to oppose the Wokeness that doth not sleep?

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Snidely Whiplash's avatar

People that think Medicare works haven't tried to find a new doctor to see them if they are on Medicare, even those with the supplemental insurance. It's not worth the doctors time.

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VW's avatar

“Medicare seems like a program that works...”. Yeah, ask doctors about that. Government-set fees for service doesn’t resemble any type of free market, removes competition and doesn’t weed out the bad docs. And let’s not talk about the rampant Medicare fraud, okay Mickey? Yep, it’s a great program!

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K T Cat's avatar

Why wouldn't it go this way? There are no limiting principles at play once you decide that a person's group memberships are crucial and you ditch Christianity. From where will you derive your moral stance allowing you to yell, "STOP?" The left is no longer motivated by compassion, open-mindedness and tolerance. That was discarded a while back. Wokeness is simply the most recent stop in the evolution of the left. It's not done evolving yet.

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Directorate's avatar

Biden has the mental faculties of a 12 year old. He won't be doing anything. Alexander Soros will be Shadow President and be making the decisions, as he has for the DNC and its main players for 6 years now.

But Trump won't be leaving so the point is moot.

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William R. Suggs's avatar

Does the Woke movement have a symbol or logo yet? Perhaps a large staring eye ball?

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Jacob Shell's avatar

This post is misunderstanding what "wokeness" is and where its core is really located. Biden can't "sister-soulja" a figure like Harald Schmidt without insulting his most important constituency: the rich liberals. If a Schmidt-firing becomes frontpage news (and if it doesnt there's no point in the souljah-op, right?) then rich liberals will feel insulted because they'll see that's what's being tossed aside is their *own* ethos, their own slogans and yardsigns and op-eds, from summer 2020. Biden isn't going to do that. Liberals, for the most part, arent wired like Robert Wright or Matt Yglesias; rather, they see the world as the NYT sees the world.

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Mahon01's avatar

Shorter Kaus: Sarah Palin was right!

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The Monster's avatar

Palin was wrong about one thing. We won't get actual Death Panels to judge whether we're worthy of treatment. We'll get nameless low-level bureaucrats in some cubicle, or maybe just an algorithm. OK, two things. She missed that the decisions would be racist.

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Greg the Class Traitor's avatar

The problem with this is that the "liberals" are all moral cowards. So the idea that they'll actually fight the Left is ludicrous

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