My long standing healthcare goal is (or was) creating public funded access to lower cost treatments, like vaccines, with a focus on anything infectious/likely to cause externalities, and even more major injuries that if covered would help get people back to work, and on net/

/would pay themselves back through tax dollars. From there I wanted state coverage filling in the gaps for more serious treatments;

but all of this had to be in tandem with a federal blanket of new regulation targeting some of the most egregious monopolistic practices as/

/well as drug price spiking, extreme and flagrant abuse of already overly generous copyright laws through “supposed” NCEs, and reform on networking that created insurance:hospital disccordination that at its face runs counter to the very purpose of having a damn national currency

This is not a universal system on the federal level and it’d not function as an absolute single payer system from state to state but from the data I looked at I liked it best

But first, we need the regulatory regime to get serious cost cutting reform into place.

While I’m still not sold on M4A’s model which recklessly looks to dismantle all private insurance and keep intact some bad structures that still exist in Medicare payouts, it seems like even the public option crowd hasn’t really put forward much focus (much less legislation)/

/that’ll carry out desperately needed reform. Because of this, and thanks to a lot of discussions I’ve had with people on here, I’ve slowly begun to side with the pro-universal healthcare contingent on twitter. God knows I have my complaints but for the most part they’re/

/the ones seriously addressing failures in our healthcare system

If the Biden constituency ends up producing he goods I might shift back to the PO camp but for now it’s been far too scattershot and distracted

Now you might be thinking “wait why on earth did you make this thread, is there something I didn’t hear about”

No, nothing specific, which is why I wanted to update my views now, and not when there’s a controversy so people know I’m not just reactionary on this stuff

In any case, that probably means the might be added to my profile, thus once again proving I’m a dirty shill who plays all sides