Policy proposal would represent significant expansion of public health insurance program for Americans above 65
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 month ago

    The Republican solution is for the olds to die in order to save the economy. Except if it’s them, of course.

  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    The article didn’t mention it but did her proposal include anything about pay requirements for home health care aides? Generally it is a poorly paid profession and one thing I like about Biden is he always makes sure to tie things to good paying, potentiallu union jobs. Hopefully it’s just further in the policy statement, if not this is a misstep from Harris and a retraction from Biden’s labor friendly policies at a time when Trump/Vance are appealing to poor folks and labor people left and right (literally)

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      In addition to higher pay and Medicare coverage, I’d also like to see some tighter regulations on training. What’s required varies by state, but usually it’s not too stringent, often something like a 2 week course and a background check.

      I work in 911 dispatch, people who have home health aides obviously have a lot of medical emergencies, and it’s often those aides calling me when they do. Often they’re completely clueless about the patients medical history, unable to answer basic questions like their age, often don’t even know the address, and often are uncooperative with me and sometimes refuse to do things like perform CPR when I need them to.

      Some are great, most aren’t.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 month ago

        We are going to have a lot more elderly soon, and not a lot of young people to fulfill these roles. I am not sure making the requirements more stringent is the best answer… I would rather everyone have an aid, rather than half the people having heavily qualified aids.

        Maybe they could create some program that just applies to the industry, where there is some form with all that vital information that the state administrates thar the care giver is required to maintain on hand. Free/mandatory CPR classes should be a must also.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    913·
    1 month ago

    People who receive long-term support services are among the government’s most expensive beneficiaries. Although they comprise 6% of all people enrolled in Medicaid, they account for 34% of federal and state Medicaid spending, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

    Because it’s a huge grift where lots of companies never visit the patient and charge Medicaid a shit ton of money…

    The solution isn’t paying those companies even more money to do nothing.

    The solution is fixing our entire healthcare system.

    But for some reason Harris will only do things the majority of voters want when it’s against the party platform. 50+% of Americans wanting universal healthcare isn’t enough of a reason for her to support universal healthcare…

    https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/29/most-americans-support-universal-health-care-can-it-actually-happen

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      1 month ago

      You really want universal Healthcare?

      Suspend Medicare for 5 years, the boomers hate socialized medicine already, let’s respect their wishes.

      Suddenly, you’ll have a functioning national polity capable of rational discourse again.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        Bruh…

        The first time it was part of a presidential platform was Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.

        If all it took was people dying off, we’d have gotten it by now. The problem is we keep trying, getting a tiny crumb, and then get stalled another 20 years by our own party because we just got something.

        Affordable care act was 2010, so we might get another crumb when Harris is getting ready to leave her second term. That way the progressive in the primary would get under cut on healthcare against the moderate because they’ll frame asking for more as being against what we just got.

        I just legitimately don’t understand why more people don’t see it, it’s blatantly obvious on a long enough timeline.

        The only way we get universal healthcare is if we refuse to shut up about it.

        I already get it. I’m a disabled vet, but it’s just insane to me hearing what the majority of Americans have to deal with

        • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          I suspect Harris looked at this poll or something like it. Americans don’t know what they want, but they do know what they don’t want, and that’s too much change at one time. Which is a shame because Obama ran on Hope and Change. But by the time he took office, the gap between people who said that they thought the Government should take responsibility for quality healthcare and those who say that it’s none of the Government’s business shrank from like +40 to almost 0, and only in a matter of 2 years. Then he passed the ACA, and that number went negative. Between Progressives leaving him high and dry and moderates saying he went to far, Obama just got creamed on this. And I’m sure Harris wants to serve more than one term, especially if the Trumpster Fire is still kicking around in 2028!

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            By the same token she needs Pennsylvania and 58% of registered voters want to ban fracking because it negatively effects them…

            Like you said, the people know what they don’t work, but both candidate have explicitly said they won’t ban fracking.

            If Harris is doing what you’re saying and just trying to win, why not ban fracking?

            • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              Couple of ideas here:

              • Registered Voters != Likely Voters. That’s like Polling 101 right there and part of why this isn’t black and white.
              • She probably thinks she’ll lose more of her coalition by banning fracking than she’ll retain.
              • Cold, hard, cash is always a possible answer.
        • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 month ago

          Affordable care act was 2010, so we might get another crumb when Harris is getting ready to leave her second term. That way the progressive in the primary would get under cut on healthcare against the moderate because they’ll frame asking for more as being against what we just got.

          Jesus, the ACA took literally every penny of political capital Obama had, and he walked in with more than any Dem president in decades.

          If he hadn’t wasted his and our time on the ACA we could have passed something useful, like campaign finance reform, though that would have been dismantled too, you still have to work on it, CU is killing this country.

          You have a 5th grader’s appreciation of politics.

          Healthcare needs to be fixed in a completely different way, the insurers need to be staked through the heart, and the providers not far after, otherwise nothing you do will matter, there’s simply too much money involved.