Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

Purse strings? There are too many budget lines to even attempt that on twitter. As an overall philosophy, I used to be financially conservative, I am now more fiscally efficient. We should be looking at both long and short term, winners and losers, and aiming for equity.

Some programs are best administered federally (military, etc), some state-level or below. Some should be public, some should be private. We should be administering programs that make sense at the right level of government. Sometimes that means spending more, sometimes cutting.

Be mindful of *anyone* on very broad questions like war or budget that gives a short, resolute answer(s) with no flexibility and as if they have all the info when they obviously don't. It might make for pithy campaign slogans, but it makes for bad legislators.

I think in my lifetime we will be choice or structural need be on some type of universal or single payer. I also think neither party has been super pragmatic in how we handle healthcare. I like opening up medicare or medicaid to public buy-in so it's a choice-based move.

"Profits" could increase coverage, lower out of pocket costs and increase payment to providers. Each year our congress should be actively working to incrementally address this issue. Right now we have the ACA, which is not great law...

Actively being undermined instead of improved, and by a political party that had 7 years to create what could have been a much better solution, but was total crap. Legislators should be working collaboratively to improve the lives of constituents with an eye to budget.

Instead we are electing people who are determined to make it a blame-ridden competitive sport. We have chosen this. In the fall, send a group of attorneys, scientists, etc with marching orders to improve your lives on a budget. You won't recognize congress, in a good way.

Send skill sets and ideas to DC, and not political parties and posturing. Send grown ups.