I think that simply making H1B visas easier to get will reduce the extent of the problem
Fuck that. They should be abolished completely. There are tons of Americans who can do those jobs. Businesses do not need to have government bailouts via the immigration system.
Most Americans don’t know but tech jobs pay between $200k-$1m
No, they do not. More like $50k-200k. But the rest of your comment is pretty much right.
So tbh it was indeed a flop imo
Not a flop at all. I used ACA for several years and was extremely glad to have it.
Before the ACA, I didn’t have medical coverage at ALL.
The health care insurance companies literally created a shared database of blacklist victims who they denied health care to. It was at mib.com, which is now a completely different site.
In retrospect I don’t believe for a second that he had any intention of doing much of anything. Just empty campaign lies.
We literally got everything Obama campaigned on in health care except the public option. This is what Obama promised you. If you say he promised something else, that’s your lie, not his.
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf
No one I know who voted for Obama had any serious expectation that we were getting Single Payer.
Because that was never his proposal.
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf
We elected Obama with the hope for single payer healthcare and received Romney Care in a rebrand effort called the ACA.
Dude if you didn’t read Obama’s 2008 campaign proposal for health care reform that’s on you. The only thing we didn’t get was the public option, thanks to Joe Lieberman.
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_campaign_position_on_health_care.pdf
https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/obama_health_care_reform_proposal.pdf
Democrats passed ACA
So they got healthcare for tens of millions of people. That’s fantastic. I used it for awhile myself.
God our government is so fucking useless for anything that might actually help people.
More specifically: gop.gov
I’d move there if they had half the benefits they do in the PRC. Universal healthcare,
Taiwan has universal healthcare. China has a crappy employer based health care system.
Treason Trump ran to stay out of jail.
Nothing was “thrown at him”. If you break the law, you bring down the law on you. The jury system insures that you can only be found guilty by a random 12 person panel of citizens. Why are you pretending that our 200+ year old jury system doesn’t work? It worked for 200 years…
. I would argue that the ethics of the economy have improved,
The Reagan era was a glorification of greed. Before then, CEOs were expected to care about all the stakeholders of a company. Not just stockholders but also customers and employees and the general community. A large amount of enshitification resulted from the glorification of greed era. For example, tuition at public universities went from very reasonable to absurdly expensive. Health care deductibles went from $250 to $6000. Anti-trust law stopped being enforced etc.
Yeah, we are gonna be mere “poll numbers” forever and nothing will be done.
Before the ACA passed, each and every time I brought up the need to change the system in online forums, somebody would tell me it will never happen. In those days there was no way to get insurance if you had preexisting conditions without working for a corporation.
I still remember when ACA happened. The smart people who wanted single payer or similar were shunned out the room
Because neither Obama nor Clinton campaigned in 2008 for single payer. And there was no margin to spare in getting the 60 senate votes needed (although they should have only need 50 no 60), and so Lieberman all by himself was able to kill the Public Option that most people would have used.
Except if the dems had solid majorities for years they could be pushed left easily.
That is exactly what it will take for major progress. Otherwise it won’t happen.
. Why didn’t cobra apply?
Because he didn’t leave his company. His company changed their insurance.
. They point to Canada’s system and say most Canadians wish they had our system.
Most Canadians are extremely glad they don’t have our system.
What did he do? Biden immediately gave away the public option as a show of good faith
Nope. We only lost the public option because of Joe Lieberman saying he wouldn’t support it and we needed all 60 Dem senators to vote for it.
There should be a 50k tax per H1-B worker. That would cut out the bullshit ensure that only workers who actually have needed skills are hired, rather than using foreign labor to lower American wages. I’m pretty sure that companies would suddenly “realize” they don’t really need very many foreign workers.