This meme is full of shit:
First Biden term: Increased health benefits for veterans, lowered insurance premiums for people who sign up through ACA, opened special enrollment resulting in 2.5 million Americans signing up for insurance, lowered the cost of insulin, streamlined ACA applications, removed medical coverage caps for children, increased transparency in pharmaceutical pricing, investing 2.5 billion in mental health, expanded telehealth across the nation, especially for rural communities.
The American healthcare system sucks, and Biden has made definite significant improvements to make it suck less for tens of millions of people in just a few years.
If you want a better system, you’re going to have to leave this country or start a campaign to vote for changes instead of continuing to pay into a shitty system that you know is f***** up.
BB69@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Go talk to the House of Representatives
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But prez is king who change anything by decree…
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
You’re right, it’s totally fine that he doesn’t do anything to put it on the agenda.
Because he’s not a literal king, we can’t criticise him for ignoring people’s needs and failing to say or do anything to push for something that is not only sorely needed but extremely popular across political divides.
It’s totally fine that the entire dem primary field was talking about medicare for all when a popular candidate was forcing them to, and then we didn’t hear one word about it after everyone rallied together to force that guy out. Don’t criticise in election season, you don’t want Trump do you?
I mean, give him some time! He’s just a new baby president! Everyone knows you get a few months to just kind of chill and get a feel for the space.
Oh but we can’t talk about it now, look at what the republicans are doing, it’s just such a crisis right now, we’re just reacting to their crazy antics!
Oh we lost congress in the primaries, now we can’t do anything.
Listen, you can’t expect the president to actually do anything. Because he’s not a literal king.
Fucking libs. You spend all your time telling us to follow a process, and when the process gets nothing done, you tell us not to blame you, it’s just the process! It’s just hard, and slow, and it takes time, and we really need to wait for another four or eight or twelve years, and then maybe another dem will get elected and kind of partially undo some of the damage the last guy did and not actually make any progress to make up for it.
And when we try to point this out, you call us whiny little babies who aren’t educated and mature enough to sit around waiting for Godot to finally pull his thumb out and show up.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pretty sure anything that touches the budget in any way other than minor allocation changes is strictly congress’ business.
For example, when he tried to forgive student loans several years ago he was empowered to do so by a law from 2003 which allowed the Secretary of Education to change rules and waive amounts during an emergency such as 9/11 or a Pandemic. And State AGs still sued him over it and won, despite that legislature.