David Pakman
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The wealth gap is wider than the Gilded Age.
They were warned and they ignored it.
Now we warned them about healthcare.
When Trump tried to repeal the affordable care act without a replacement back in 2017, we found that this was going to lead to 20 to 30 million people losing care.
When stead, uh, red States rejected the Medicaid expansion, we said people are going to suffer.
They said you're fear mongering and now we've got rural hospitals closing at record rates
medical debt as a leading reason for cause of bankruptcy, and potentially even more people losing health insurance.
And remember, it ends up with people going to the ER for primary care.
We all still end up paying for it.
People are rationing insulin, doing GoFundMes for cancer treatments in one of the richest countries in the world.
Can you think of a bigger moral failing in addition to kids going to bed hungry?
Absolutely unacceptable.
Can you think of a bigger failing than a country as rich as the United States having GoFundMe campaigns for people's cancer treatment?
We warned them and they ignored it.
We warned them about education.
You can't demonize teachers, defund public schools, ban books, inject culture war politics into classrooms and expect it to go well.
And we've got teacher shortages plaguing states where educators can't even afford rent.
Students are falling behind.
Schools in Florida want to teach that slavery had some beneficial aspects.
And the education system in red states is hemorrhaging talent.