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Originally Posted by watsup1000
You are proving my contention that Biden is a centrist. The fact is that the majority of people want to maintain some sort of government help in regards to health insurance. Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues to push their case for totally eliminating Obamacare in front of the SC with no plan for how to replace it such that those covered under it continue to have health insurance.
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Biden wants to do what didn't work (Obamacare) in an even bigger, more expensive way. The only difference is that the insurance company he wants to set up will be public instead of private. How is that going to drive prices down when health exchanges accomplished nothing? Public can't beat private unless it is supplemented with taxpayer money, which it shouldn't be, because the private businesses can't compete. His entire proposal is nonsense. It's a waste of effort.
What Republicans wanted to do since the 90s is private health savings accounts; not insurance. The idea is to put cost pressures on providers so providers drive their operating costs down. They're also not funds the government can take and there's no profit/loss component of them. It's mandatory savings account because as most people age, their need for healthcare goes up. If they've had a productive life, they'll have a big pool of money to use for end of life care. If they haven't, that's why we have Medicaid and Medicare.
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Originally Posted by watsup1000
Actually, once again, the majority of people want some gun sanity laws that would help to prevent the gun massacres that have become way too common after the Repubs allowed assault-type weapons back into the general public, and also to try to cut down on the 40,000 or so gun deaths each and every year in this "civilized First World" nation. Biden again is the centrist regarding this issue.
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Biden isn't talking about anything that is Constitutional, never mind remotely feasible.
Republicans and Democrats agreed bump-stocks are a technology covered under the spirit of the National Firearms Act so they passed a law to include bump-stocks as a modification which turns a semi-auto rifle into a full-auto rifle; therefore banned. That is a centrist proposal and it passed because it was centrist and almost everyone agreed something should be done about it.
By the way, the vast majority of gun deaths are caused by pistols which the Heller decision made explicitly clear government cannot deprive people of (unless felon).
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And no, Trump is not "centrist". That's why his approval rating has hovered down around 40% or below for basically his entire term. He is supported primarily by the vast right-wing FOX cult, and that's about it. Very few of his programs, if any, have majority support for them.
No, he is not centrist at all.
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I did not say he was, just closer to the center than Biden is.
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Ummm, yes. It's the Democratic Party. Who do you expect them to be "behind"? DOH!
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I was referring to a specific group inside the party that controls the party. Not the people that consider themselves members of said party, but the rulers of it.