Matt Taibbi

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3/30/2024, 11:48:31 PM
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Angel Eyes 🇺🇸
@AngelEyesNYC
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@mtaibbi @erichhartmann @ZaidJilani But the GOP opposes universal health care. They still plan to repeal the ACA when they get a chance--as well as Social Security and Medicare. Voting for Republicans, who oppose all government programs, is not the way to get universal health care.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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@erichhartmann @ZaidJilani If you’re upset about it not having universal health care I would maybe look at the history, dating back to Billy Tauzin leaving Congress to head PhRMA, to Obama killing single-payer and reimportation, to the myriad ways the Sanders campaign was suppressed to help explain it.…
Erich Hartmann
@erichhartmann
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@ZaidJilani @mtaibbi The things you listed are products of highly centralized and heavy government involvement in people's lives backed up by threat of force. America isn't a socialist country.
Zaid Jilani
@ZaidJilani
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America has no guaranteed paid sick leave, no guaranteed paid parental leave, no universal health care, no guaranteed paid vacations (or unpaid), one of the lowest union rates, and most expensive college. But to @mtaibbi conservatives have no power. Only the left does. OK.

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