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A whole new government department will need created, staffed.

With state oversight departments.

Billing software will need created unless existing is up to the task. Idk how old it is.

Reviews of hospitals and clinics costs and charges will need reviewed from every location and pricing allowances determined.

A lot of this already exists for Medicaid and Medicare though.

This would honestly take at minimum, 2 years. Even piggybacking from Medicaid/Medicare infrastructure and logistics.

Dental and vision will probably take longer.

But a lot of Medicaid/Medicare current work infrastructure likely needs a huge overhaul. I think there will be a demand to get it going.

It's going to take an enormous amount of planning and human resources, but under the right project planner and good oversight , it can be done. Effeciently.

And tell him Obama couldn't get it done.

They should send people in to talk to donnie just before it comes to his desk. Preferably people he seems to be attracted to like Mamdani.

They can tell him he will be as beloved as FDR himself.

That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.

More like "DoesTrumpCare". Amiright?

Thank you, Thank you, Try the Veal.

No, you see, that money is earmarked for the military industrial complex.

Bernie has been right for 70 years. The last time he was wrong, he was in diapers, and quickly apologized once he learned to talk.

The asshole CEOs are the ones donating campaign contributions. Until that legal bribery is reversed, the politicians will fall en mass to the will of the CEOs. But Clarence Thomas wanted an rv so now we've got citizens united.

If somebody donned a green hat each week until this passed, CEOs would move into a compound by week 3, and this would still not pass. I think it will take something much more extreme. There's way too much for the owners to lose by letting health insurance slip through their fingers. It's not just money, but control to keep the laborers obedient and loyal. We NEED health insurance, so we stay with our abusers. I don't know what action it would actually take to get M4A, but I'm pretty sure that saying it would get me banned from a lot of internet platforms and maybe get feds knocking on my door to ask a few questions. It would take good trouble, to say the least.

The best Democrats can do is put it to a vote that will inevitably be shot down by a silent / lazy / cloture filibuster, and if not that, a veto by Trump. Still, they might as well do it and then point loudly to Republicans blocking the way of progress and campaign on this into 2028.

What Democrats won this cycle was a lifeline for the party, and hopefully a shift in their direction that distinguishes themselves from Republicans in an authentic way -- not just "Republican-lite." Especially if they pick these two seats up in Alaska and Mississippi then Congress looks very favorable to them in 2028 for whoever the Democratic President will be then. Second to that, what this did was enable Democrats to apply some brakes on Trump's active smash and grab.

What Dems can do now:

• They CAN skirt the silent filibuster with a procedures vote that only takes a simple majority ("nuclear option"). It's not quite as comprehensive as truly removing it, but it would suffice (this is when Traitor Sinema curtsied and blocked its removal last time).

• They CAN effectively abolish the Electoral College and push first at state-level and then in Congress (probably via omnibus bill) the The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Dems won enough state legislatures and Congress to do this! Put another way: If this was in place for 2016, Trump would've lost and would likely have been relegated to history thereafter.

• They must start Congressional investigations, hearings, and issue subpoenas. Start holding accountable this regime and instilling fear. Already at least one Trump lawyer has resigned.

These things alone (along with the principled legislation of M4A noted above) would set Democrats up massively for 2028.

Hell I'd even be fine following the German SHI system. Just something that would actually provide actual universal coverage and regulate the out of control insurance companies.

I've been organizing unions for years. I've never once met a union staffer that wanted private healthcare over public healthcare to maintain bargaining power. Unions bargain healthcare because we have to, not because it's a bargaining chip. If private healthcare dies, that creates substantially more bargaining power for workers.

Yep. They use it to keep you working. Do the math to see how far away you are from retirement if you weren't saddled with healthcare premiums. It is bonkers that every single citizen is not in favor of it.