The Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill Act will cause at least 10 million Americans to lose their healthcare coverage due to sweeping budget cuts to slash taxes for corporations and wealthy individuals. That’s very close to the number of 2020 Biden voters who refused to turn out for Kamala Harris in 2024. Would they turn out for a Democrat in 2028 to express their displeasure? Not if the loss of healthcare has the desired effect.
A Tax Cut a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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I have often believed that profiteers convert the things that are supposed to be “boring” into gambling in order to become rich. Mortgages were supposed to be boring. Healthcare should be a near zero profit insurance system. In fact most consumer insurance should be near zero profit-not because of the need for controls over the economy but because the goal of these systems should be continuity and not speculative growth. These should be more boring than treasury securities. There should not be a vehicle economically to drive for higher profits, dividends and shareholder value because they should operate for the purpose of having enough reserve capital to backstop a catastrophe and be able to pay the employees and paperwork costs. Making that sort of thing opaque and driven by shareholder value doesn’t serve the patients or people paying for insurance.
I’m no fan of the Democrats, but I’m not sure they “let” Trump kick ten million people of Medicare, because I don’t see how they could have stopped him.
Jperiodic, I appreciate your comment. One of the purposes of government is to do things for the benefit of the citizenry whether they are “profitable” or not. The benefit is the “profit.”
“How could the democrats have stopped Trump?’
By not anointing Hillary Clinton in 2016.
By IMMEDIATELY investigating Trump after he left office and finding a genuine charge that would stick, instead of just letting him natter about for over a year before announcing he was going to run again (and thus putting himself outside of prosecution or investigation until after the election).
By not dragging Biden out of mothballs in 2020 after having thrown half a dozen other distractors against Sanders because the dems’ owners didn;t dare left universal health care get to an open Senate vote.
By ordering the dotard Biden to step aside after one term.
By taking Harris aide and telling her, point blank, she didn’t have the chops and ordering her to step aside.
By telling Nancy Pelosi that everyone knows she’s an insider trader and by opening investigations with the publically stated goal of putting her in prison if the evidence can be found,
Much like with the sinking of the Titanic, a whole chain of events had to go off without a hitch for that iceberg to sideswipe the ship. If the dems had show one scintilla of nonpartisan sincerity at any one of multiple occasions, we would not have Trump. It’s, literally, a case of so many missed opportunities that no possible conclusion can be reached other than that the democratic party is no longer functional in any sense of the word.
Well said!