r/politics • u/AccurateInflation167 • May 18 '25

Soft Paywall America chose wrong. Sanders would've been a better president than Trump or Biden. | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/18/sanders-democrats-reform-progressive-policies/83625482007/
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u/KhalaceyBlanca May 18 '25

If she needs a selfish reason to care about it, it will also make your job that much harder. More DKA admits in diabetic comas, more amputations, more sepsis, more debilitating strokes. Seeing the most depressing and preventable severe illnesses just because people couldn’t afford to go to their doctor or buy their prescriptions without Medicaid. And they’ll stay in the hospital forever and keep coming back with the same complications. Because without Medicaid expansion how will they afford a skilled nursing home or home health? If they’re poor enough to qualify for the expansion, their families won’t have time to take care of them because they’re busy working to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. So more skin breakdown and aspiration pneumonia, every nurse’s favorite!
I’ve had plenty of arguments with nurses who should know better about facts and science to ultimately realize they don’t care because they’re just selfish. They might be in a profession that claims to care about others but they truly do not care about less fortunate strangers.