This. It's so optimistic in a world where the Overton window includes banning private trans healthcare in some states, to assume that public healthcare will cover trans care and that we won't just be thrown under the bus :(
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Yeah single payer increases the potential for all kinds of medical gatekeeping, whether trans health or reproductive health or just general issues of misdiagnosis. I'm really bothered by how the whole health reform discourse has been distorted into M4A or Not by the campaign.
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I would note that in the UK, the NHS exists but private health insurance still does too, especially (inevitably) for trans healthcare
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ERA ratification is potentially useful, here? seems like that + a SCOTUS ruling that transpeople are people and specifically transwomen are women / transmen are men would make it pretty hard for rogue actors to codify bad policy? though of course, shitty doctors still could
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*Looks at Supreme Court dubiously*
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ah yes the good old democracy bad, private heathlcare good for rich people trope... Most people have no say in their healthcare plan as it is, but moreover they cannot vote to fix it.
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Yes Having a good government is better than a bad one. Guess what : it's not only for trans people, it's for everybody, and no amount of private healthcare insurance is going to protect anyone from a racist, trans-phobic republican gov, as history has demonstrated.
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Ok, so what you’re really saying is that we need to write an amendment into the bill to protect people’s rights so that doesn’t happen? Totally agree
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The reality is that the GOP will absolutely dig their heels in and not budge. We likely wont have a Dem majority. Trans health care will be one of the first sacrifices made. Cuz Dems know that the blowback from that will be less than if they did not pass any health care bill.
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It's exceedingly unlikely that Sanders is going to get everything he wants from Republicans, but then suddenly lose the majority that would actually require afterwards. I understand your concerns but the point is that you can't argue from a position of already having lost.
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lol why is it unlikely? That's exactly what happened in 2010. How young are you exactly?
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