Current Events > Buttigieg: "I trust you to figure out your own health care"

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https://twitter.com/SmithInAmerica/status/1205546782425538561

For context, this guy is live-tweeting some event Buttigieg is doing at the Washington Post

https://twitter.com/SmithInAmerica/with_replies
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K I figured it out and I won't be voting for his dumb ass.
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What is it with the anti Pete stuff lately here

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he's talking about his opposition to M4A ending all private insurance, but nice shitpost

darkprince45 posted...

What is it with the anti Pete stuff lately here

bernie supporters think this is some kind of winning strategy for some reason

BadderHare posted...

he's talking about his opposition to M4A ending all private insurance

yeah, it's a non-sequitur

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Because as the field whittles down he's still in it and relevant despite being essentially a republican.

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What a failure of a topic.

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Acting like the hassle of dealing with insurance companies is in fact a privilege.
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Antifar posted...

Acting like the hassle of dealing with insurance companies is in fact a privilege.

Murica

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BadderHare posted...

he's talking about his opposition to M4A ending all private insurance, but nice shitpost

yesssssss I get to choose which private company bankrupts me for getting cancer. I want my right to choose to pay more for less care and have a bean counter decide if a treatment is necessary instead of a doctor. It's dumb, Pete knows it's dumb, but he also knows this focus grouped well to fool certain voters since we have a lot of illusion of choice fetish in America.

Funny how Pete was for ending private insurers, stating med4all wasn't going far enough, before his billionaire chaperones decided for him to take the center right lane.

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pete supports a public option, but nice shitpost

Antifar posted...

Acting like the hassle of dealing with insurance companies is in fact a privilege.

yeah, it's pretty orwellian that the ability to change jobs to find health care you like is some how a feature of our system and not a bug

BadderHare posted...

pete supports a public option, but nice shitpost

that creates a two-tier system that is especially problematic if you need a specialist, who is probably capable of only seeing clients that will reimburse him or her at the rate private insurance does, rather than the lower medicaid/care rates

actually, in terms of substance, I think you could use the public option to choke private insurance off in the long-term but it's an odd policy goal in and of itself. strategically it makes a lot more sense to push for M4A and then settle.

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BadderHare posted...

pete supports a public option, but nice shitpost

yyaaaayyy dual healthcare system where we load up the public option with all the poors and those most in need while it doesn't get proper funding from the entire pool being in it and few doctors accepting it. Then it'll be easier to cut from and we can vilify it when it sucks.

Never mind that supporting a public option in the primary has been code for compromising with the other side to pass a right wing plan when president.

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lol I love hearing that something bernie supported himself not too long ago is suddenly code for right wing healthcare plan

progressives don't like the comparison but they truly are as delusional as labour under corbyn

Even with context, it's a real stupid tone-deaf thing to say.
American healthcare sucks. Private insurance is a scam. It's awful for the poorest class, it's aggravating for the middle class, it's only good for ther upper class who can afford to spend whatever they want on their own health. Even for the middle class, it's easy to make a small mistake and end up tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
This is a statement made by someone who likes private healthcare.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Maybe if you troll harder well all come around and vote for whatever idiotic thing you want

It's so weird how you think I somehow lose anything from your delusion. Like believe whatever you want to dude, I don't care.

Pete is the worst lol

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BadderHare posted...

lol I love hearing that something bernie supported himself not too long ago is suddenly code for right wing healthcare plan

progressives don't like the comparison but they truly are as delusional as labour under corbyn

Sanders supported the best that was getting passed and will still do so.

But I now see this isn't driven by a substantive critique of policy. You prefer a public option because progressives dunked you on the internet.

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i dislike pete but that is a terribly misleading quote

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TheMikh posted...

i dislike pete but that is a terribly misleading quote

It may sound bad to you but a lot of people eat this stuff up. Expect him to sell t-shirts with this quote.

People like the general idea of choice, freedom, and getting ur gubmit venezuela hands off my health care.

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foreverzero212 posted...

But I now see this isn't driven by a substantive critique of policy.

I haven't critiqued anything I just pointed out what the incredibly misleading quote in the OP actually meant. Pete doesn't support eliminating private insurance but does support a public option, which was good when progressives supported it I guess?

And you're not dunking on anyone dude, stop being so embarrassing. You're just part of a weird online echo chamber who thinks saying such a thing is a good enough substitute for winning elections.

BadderHare posted...

which was good when progressives supported it I guess?

it was considered good by progressives when the alternative was subsidizing private insurance

you'll notice that no one is proposing that any more

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BadderHare posted...

I haven't critiqued anything

We know. You've just been vaguely whining about leftists.

Pete supports your right to figure out your own health care and what plan you choose to get. If you take that much offense to his catch phrase on healthcare, maybe you shouldn't support it. Oh right but you gotta own the libs tho.

ps 16yo account with 3 years of karma

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BadderHare posted...

Pete doesn't support eliminating private insurance but does support a public option, which was good when progressives supported it I guess?

Ten years is a long time. Obama's 2009 stances on LGBT issues were not without criticism at the time, but they'd be given a lot more pushback in a present day primary.
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foreverzero212 posted...

We know. You've just been vaguely whining about leftists.

only vague thing in this topic was the OP. all I did was point out he supports a public option.

really weird that you're so mad over this.

Does he trust us to spend our own money too?
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This reminds me of the time in the simpsons where they edited footage of him to make him sound worse.

https://youtu.be/qEGFaOeUm2A?t=28

Maybe they aren't editing any footage of buttigieg, but when you post a short sentence without its context (which totally changes it) you're basically doing the same thing

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BadderHare posted...

only vague thing in this topic was the OP. all I did was point out he supports a public option.

really weird that you're so mad over this.

You're the one mad enough to hop on a stolen old account to post some unrelated sanders derangement syndrome crap.

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conspiracy theories are definitely something you use when you're not mad

Water you doing Pete? Libs want the gov't to do everything for them.