What’s keeping people from demanding it?
The only opinion that matters for the government is the opinion of the 1%.
This isn’t any exaggeration: it has been demonstrated using statistical analysis
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
Yep
A video about it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k
Seriously? Because that’s money flowing in the “wrong” direction, that is away from billionaires’ pockets.
This is literally all there is to it, along with indentured servitude by tying insurance to employment on top of it. This country’s fucked up healthcare system keeps the billionaires happy and the people stuck appeasing them.
Medicare for all and legal pot both have had an around 70% approval rate for about a decade now. The government simply doesnt care because those things do not make the right people rich. Studies have shown the US gov doesn’t respond to its voters, it responds to its financiers. It honest to god never mattered what we thought.
A plan to fix this - https://represent.us/
A video about it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQij4aQq1k
Congress represents capitalists and works for them, not the working classes. Any plan that cannot address the class conflict and the nature of the capitalist state instruments to uphold their class interests is doomed to fail.
There is no current organization of the working class to counter capitalist demands. Without organization, the working class will be kept powerless.
“why isn’t the crumbling fascist imperial regime providing me healthcare?” is a question that answers itself OP
People can demand it, but that isn’t how we could ever get it. The privatized healthcare system makes too much money and the left in the US Empire is only recently beginning to recover from the Red Scare and systematic dismantling by the state in the 20th century.
Now that the Red Scare is largely over, the United States is being dismantled by a compromised president controlled by Russia in the 21st century.Born too early to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born too late to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born just in time to see the US being dismantled by Russia.I am ignorant of modern geopolitics. Have no pity for me. I will go learn.
This isn’t true, though. Trump just isn’t quite as hawkish on Russia as many liberals would like, but if he was actually compromised he would be lifting sanctions and wouldn’t be attacking Russian allies like Iran and Venezuela.
Now that the Red Scare is largely over
It never ended and won’t be over until capitalism is dead. What do you think the bullshit about a “Uyghur genocide” was for?
House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting
I can see that I’m not as well-read on the state of affairs as everyone else, and also I just noticed that I’m on .ml.
My apologies. I’ll remove myself from this instance until I am less ignorant about the world I live in.
You should stay on this instance to learn. Lots of learning material.
Because of decades of lobbying by the for-profit healthcare industry.
I feel like we Marxists have explained why hundreds of times in dozens of ways already.
Because the politicians who could allow it are bribed by health insurance lobbyists to not allow it. There’s a lot of money at stake for a relative few people, and they’ll do anything to not risk it.
Helps keep people enlisting when the only way they can have their basic needs met is to sign up with the evil empire.
because they gotta spend a literal trillion a year to kill brown people worldwide instead.
It’s actually cheaper to do single payer healthcare, but because profit rules all the empire does this.
The companies make too much money, and the same companies dictate policy to the government.
The USA is not a democracy.
It would take a lot of pressure off of people to grind themselves down for profits as well as demonstrate that a government can actually take care of people, two precedents the capitalist class absolutely refuses to set.
Because our sclerotic legislature and campaign finance systems ensure that every single function of “democratic” society is fully and totally captured by the interests of capital
The cult of the line goes up
I watched a video today that said just the bureaucratic overhead of healthcare in the US accounts for 10% of our GDP. So it’s probably mostly just bribe money from the insurance companies keeping our elected representatives from doing anything in our interest.
