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Sometimes I think about what we could have had. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act

• js2 1y ago
  And 15 years before that was Hillarycare (1993): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19... (Fuck you Bill Kristol.) There's a long, sad, littered history of attempts at universal care in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_...
  • edbaskerville 1y ago
    Bill Kristol has come a long way! He would vote for Mamdani...over Cuomo and Sliwa anyway. https://www.cmcforum.com/post/bill-kristol-says-he-would-vote-for-zohran-mamdani-for-new-york-city-mayor https://www.cmcforum.com/post/bill-kristol-says-he-would-vot... You can hear him discussing it here: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bill-kristol-fake-news-on-60-minutes https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bill-kristol-fake-news-on-60-mi... I'm also reminded of the time Jon Stewart got Bill Kristol to admit that a government-run health care system (the VA) was good: https://youtu.be/rRSZiWwiBuE https://youtu.be/rRSZiWwiBuE
    • dfe 1y ago
      Bill Kristol is the same asshole he always was.
  • monocasa 1y ago
    Interestingly, the ACA can trace its roots to the Republican counter proposal to Hillarycare written by the Heritage Foundation of recent Project 2025 fame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Reform_Today_Act_of_1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Refor...