Louisiana to provide free medicine, still not socialist - Polidicks

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/444245-louisiana-is-creating-a-drug-price-revolution Louisiana is putting the final touches on a revolutionary deal that promises to simultaneously control health care costs and increase access to a drug that actually cures Hepatitis C, an infectious disease that kills more Americans than any other, including HIV/AIDS. The idea is remarkably simple: The state would pay a flat fee over a set number of years — in effect, a subscription — and in return, the drug company provides the drug to every sick patient covered by the state, without limit. Louisiana republicans invented a revolutionary concept of ...giving...people...lifesaving...medication...free.... still not universal healthcare because that's evil and bad.

but of course. Most regressives are scared of progressive sounding words. you mask something progressive in a few new words outside of their "scary zone" and it's an entirely different concept to them and they'll probably wholeheartedly accept it.

Maybe they just need to couch it in conservative names like the Jesus Christ, Guns Tax Cuts and Free Market Healthcare Act

Not only did this come from Louisiana but it was also a Republican legislature? Wow, this really surprised me. Hepatitis C is a disease that's pragmatic to treat in everybody for other reasons than morality, but I'm still really glad to hear it.

We make progress and do something good -- "HAHA TOLD YOU SO DUMB REPUBLICANS HATE SOCIALISM HUH??" Can you get over yourselves and cut this i'm-right-you're-wrong shit? Progress is progress

are you okay?

Their comments might be silly and what not, but blowing up on them doesn't provide a good reflection of your character or what the correct response should be. I do agree that we should applaud them for this legislation instead of pointing out hypocrisy. Give them carrots when they deserve it. Though I am skeptical on the actual contents of the legislation. This is Louisiana after all, but maybe they finally had a change of heart.

Or maybe we can do both things and call it a day, because the persons who got this situation to where they are shouldn't be spared when it's time to point out they were the reason we ended up in this hole in the first place. If they can't take the heat, as they're so fond of saying, they can get out of the kitchen. I might give you that last point, because it's perfectly true in most cases, but some of us do try our best to do what we can for others too. That doesn't mean, however, that activism is entirely possible or even feasible for some individuals, considering how hard you need to work just to make ends meet in a number of cases. And considering they've had a bellyful of the american government and its judiciary since december 2016, I dont blame them for a little schadenfreude either.

no it should be applauded except for the fact that if republicans had their way the states wouldn't have the medicaid funds to even do this thanks to block granting, plus when california does this its rallied against as being socialist but when a red state does it its considered an innovation in healthcare.

The ghost of Huey Long strikes back https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/HueyPLongGesture.jpg/1280px-HueyPLongGesture.jpg

I wouldn't consider it innovation, but progress, which is good. I have no quarrels with the legislation and the people if it does what we consider it to do.

Good. Now do this for insulin.

it isn't innovation, its just everything has to be spun with business friendly language. Universally, giving people lifesaving medication, no strings attached is better than anything else in our system but its so goddamn hard to just give the resources to the people who need them, we always put up these massive hurdles that just grow larger and larger as successive lobbyists enact more and more restrictions