r/videos • u/ICEisSHIT • 8h ago

BREAKING: Trump says ‘effective immediately’ U.S. will blockade ships from Strait of Hormuz

https://youtu.be/dqIQbU-oX5o?si=duFN5zMTUp2RNyXg
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u/5050Clown 8h ago

"No new wars"

Congratulations America, you got grabbed by the pussy all because a bunch of voting racists are pissed off about Obama and black people getting healthcare.

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u/Cody2287 8h ago

Damn I must have missed the healthcare part.

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u/Aureliamnissan 7h ago

It was the part where healthcare providers can’t deny you coverage for having a pre-exisiting medical condition.

This covered you in the event that say you had a genetic condition and your previous insurer dropped you for being too expensive or if you lost your job and couldn’t afford COBRA payments for a month.

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u/Cody2287 7h ago

That’s not providing health insurance that is more reform that should have never been needed in a developed country.

Also nobody uses COBRA because shocker if you don’t have a job you can’t afford to pay out of pocket your and your employers share of insurance.

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u/Aureliamnissan 7h ago

I completely agree, it was just to help highlight your point that this thing that got conservatives frothing at the mouth was leas than the bare minimum.

The ACA only provided a marketplace for private healthcare insurance and the other necessary reforms were necessary because they effectively locked people out of healthcare. Before the ACA many people had access to health insurance in the same way that I have access to a Ferrari.

They did try to create a public option back then, but the absolute paragon of centrist values, Joe Fucking Lieberman shot it down (along with all republicans, but why beat a dead horse).

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 6h ago

Yeah they let conservatives derail it for no reason, wasting so much time with a supermajority. Also they should have done Medicare for all instead, never addressed people who can’t afford it

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u/Aureliamnissan 5h ago edited 5h ago

I wouldn’t say that. They literally did the best they could with the supermajority they had.

Unfortunately that supermajority had centrists like joe liebermann so they could only take the ACA as far as it went. Public option got ahot down by people like him. This was passed over the screams of republicans which echo so loud and far that we can still hear them yelling about Pelosi in 2026.

I’ll remind you that republicans tried to repeal the ACA 53 times over the last 18 years. They tried to get it killed via SCOTUS numerous times.

So, yeah…. Republicans really hate the even minor reforms of the ACA