Damn right!
CNN offers a wrap-up on the Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s CNN town hall on the government shutdown. I assembled clips below, but wanted to grab this quote from CNN:
[AOC] said Democrats won’t accept a short-term extension of those subsidies, including for one year, a proposal she described as an effort to delay the political blow of skyrocketing health insurance premiums until after next year’s midterm elections.
“I think we know what we will not accept, and what we will not accept is for the ACA premiums to skyrocket on the American people. What we will not accept is the doubling of these premiums. And what we will not accept is allowing the teetering of this system to collapse right before everyone’s eyes,” she said.
A friend on Tuesday reported that her health care premiums are slated to jump from under $200/month to over $900 if the GOP kills off the subsidies. That’s far more than double. More than double is the national average.
No “measly one year extension of the ACA” just so Republicans can get past the 2026 midterms.
No IOUs or “pinky promises” accepted from Republicans on extending ACA subsidies, insists AOC. “That’s not the business that I’m in.” She wants “ink on paper.”
“No Kings” include billionaires who would be.
Damn right
AOC: You’re damn right that it’s a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals that are being dumped and causing cancer in people without their knowledge.
You’re damn right that it’s a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing and mortgages and rent, and you’re damn right that it’s a democratic priority to raise the minimum wage in this country, to allow people to get a fair shot at the American dream.
If they want to say that that’s a Democratic priority, they’re right
“And until there is accountability for people who refuse to work, to work, then we’re going to continue to be in this cycle.”
Thank you:
AOC: The VP has been trafficking this other misconception, saying that the emergency medicaid program is doing is providing health care to undocumented people…
The truth of the matter is that we have a federal law, as it should be, that any person who walks into a hospital in desperate need of medical attention receives that medical attention, regardless of their insurance status and regardless of who they are.
And I don’t know about you, but me as a human being, I don’t want to live in a world where if a human being is struck by a car or is getting rushed into a hospital, that the people in the E.R. Surgical room are asking for your insurance information or asking for documents before they save your life
AOC has really come into her own this year. If this country ever evolves to the point of electing a woman president, she’d make a good one.
* * * * *
Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?
No King’s One Million Rising movement – Next national day of protest Oct. 18
50501
May Day Strong
Freedom Over Fascism Toolkit
The Resistance Lab
Choose Democracy
Indivisible: A Guide to Democracy on the Brink
You Have Power
Chop Wood, Carry Water
Thirty lonely but beautiful actions
Attending a Protest Surveillance Self-Defense