Tofu Golem
I looked for a graph of American deaths per year due to lack of healthcare going back to the passing of the ACA to make a point, but I couldn't find anything that was quite exactly right. Sorry.
Around the time ACA/Obamacare passed, the news articles talked about 40k Americans dying per year.
In the current debate about Brian Thompson and Luigi Mangione, similar sources say 60k. Some on independent media are saying 100k.
I don't have good sources for this. Sorry.
1/7
Tofu Golem
I'm pretty sure nothing can prevent America from collapsing into an orgy of corruption and authoritarianism, but just in case anyone is still entertaining the idea of "working within the system" to fix things instead of just waiting for the inevitable French-style revolution, nothing can get fixed unless and until we get ALL private money out of election finance.
Think of it as a politician buyback program.
7/7
Tofu Golem
The people profiting from the housing crisis are giving Dems money, so again, they offer a performative gesture that offered the appearance of a solution without actually fixing any of the causes of the problem.
It seems like Dems are always looking for the absolute bare minimum they have to do in order to get the yelling to go down without fundamentally changing anything.
Dems lost last November for a lot of reasons. The country is racist. The country is fascist.
5/7
Tofu Golem
America tied its imperialist strategy to propping up Israel and assisting in their genocide.
But I think our corrupt campaign finance system is hurting them the most. It results in this endless parade of performative gestures (remember Nancy Pelosi kneeling in prayer over BLM, then doing nothing about that?).
The thing is, self-serving bias probably blinds them to seeing corrupt campaign finance as the problem. After all, they get lots of money out of it.
6/7
Tofu Golem
This seems to be a running theme with Dems.
Kamala Harris offered "up to" $25k down payment assistance to first-time home-buyers. Once again, this was a nice gesture, but wildly inadequate compared to the scope of the problem it purported to solve. The housing crisis is out of control, and her solution would have helped a tiny fraction of those who need to pay for someplace to live (that would be, oh, everyone).
3/7
Tofu Golem
Home prices are out of control because of Wall Street using homes as investments. Rents are out of control for a variety of reasons, including price-fixing by landlords.
Rather than actually address the root causes of the problem, Harris offered what amounted to a very small drop of relief in a very large bucket of pain.
The why is not too hard to figure out. Dems get a lot of money from health insurers, so they don't want to interfere with them in any fundamental way.
4/7
Tofu Golem
I don't have solid numbers, but I feel justified in saying that the number of deaths/yr from lack of health coverage has gone up since the passing of ACA/Obamacare.
While the ACA is orders of magnitude better than what we had before, it says something that the number of deaths/year has not gone down significantly, and has likely gone up instead of down.
This shows that the solution was wildly inadequate compared to the scope of the problem it claimed to solve.
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2016/18-charts-that-make-the-case-for-public-health/
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