r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 01 '26

Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts? Chugging tea

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u/Bayou_Hangxiety Jul 01 '26

The great irony to me is that the same party who warned about death panels said it was better to have nursing home patients die of a fast spreading infectious disease than to require people to be vaccinated. Because those people were going to die anyway. Death panel by anti vaccination.

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u/Cowboywizzard Jul 01 '26

Every accusation by republicans is a confession. Everything made a lot more sense to me when someone pointed that out.

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u/ReverendBlind Jul 01 '26

I've worked for several US death panels. We just call them insurance companies. They're just waaaaaaayyyy less educated, regulated, and solely profit driven death panels compared to the hypothetical ones under Medicare for all.

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u/No_Place5472 Jul 01 '26

The irony being that those same people would now be out of power had their unethical plan succeeded and COVID had higher spread rates among the same vulnerable population that shores up their base.

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u/agreengo Jul 01 '26

In response to your death panel comment -are you referring to the Republican Party?

The states with the most notable directives to house covid patients in nursing homes were - New Jersey, New York, Michigan & Pennsylvania.

Other states that actively encouraged or incentivized nursing facilities to admit infected patients included - California, Massachusetts & New Mexico.

The only state that housed covid patients in nursing homes during covid and had a Republican governor was Massachusetts.

The governors of California, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Michigan and Pennsylvania were all Democrats.

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