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Addressing the Democrats’ Latest Healthcare Proposal.
I have never resented the Democratic Party more than I do right now.
From the time that I learned to read at five years old, I have used writing as my primary outlet in order to express myself. For as long as I can remember I have relied on it as much as I have the air that I breathe, and I truly don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have it. As I sit down at my laptop at six in the morning to begin writing my thoughts about the congressional Democrats’ latest healthcare proposal before I go to work, put on my mask, and face another day terrified at the thought of getting myself or one of my residents or coworkers sick, this is the first time in a very long time that I’m struggling to put the amount of rage and frustration I’m feeling in to palatable words.
In the midst of a rapidly spreading global health crisis that has brought the economy to a halt and resulted in mass unemployment in it’s wake, the corporate wing of the democratic party in congress released their idea of a healthcare proposal to mitigate the damage. While Bernie Sanders has spent his career fighting for the idea of a universal single payer healthcare and his supporters have been pointing out en masse that we are living in the the most clearcut case for this plan we’ve seen in modern history, the democratic party…
