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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (20 children)

His point is just to find a way to scare his voters by calling her a communist. It's the most pathetic attack ever.

Trump said of Harris: “She cosponsored legislation to abolish very popular private health insurance, which 150 [million] Americans rely on, dumping everyone onto inferior socialist government run health care systems with rationing and deadly wait times, while massively raising your taxes. She wants to take away your private health care.”

“It’s the best health care in the world,” he continued, adding: “You’re all going to be thrown into a communist system … You’re going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.”

This bullshit about rationing and deadly wait times can only work on the most ignorant people who don't realize healthcare is better and more affordable in many other countries.

There may be a bit of "she won't hurt the right people" in there too.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (14 children)

He's not wrong about the wait times. It's very true here in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine how long people have to wait if they are poor in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is the thing that boggles my mind about the "wait times" argument. Like, it's better that people should die without healthcare than... for me to be inconvenienced with a potentially longer wait time for non-emergency care? Really? The selfishness of it is astonishing.

I once had to wait 15 months to see a neurologist. 15 months. We already have long wait times here in the US, but we like to spice it up with a little bankruptcy.

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