It's sad to see how the medical system fails Republicans. What can we do to address this discriminatory disparity and increase equity in medicine?
Or is this one of those times when it's okay to blame behavior?
Or is this one of those times when it's okay to blame behavior?
The paper goes into it, just vaccinate everybody.
sadly any compromise bill just results in the wrong bill
no public option, which was scrapped from Obamacare (to get it passed into law at all), means no super negotiator with insurers
no medicare ability to negotiate, means no super negotiator with insurers
these nuances don't have national consensus, amongst people that are open to national healthcare
It has nothing to do with politics.
Excess deaths was because the medical infrastructure was overwhelmed. So ICU services were not available as normal.
From report:
> Overall, our results suggest that political party affiliation only became a substantial risk factor in Ohio and Florida after vaccines were widely available. > ... > Lack of individual-level vaccination status limits our ability to draw broad conclusions, but the results suggest that the well-documented differences in vaccination attitudes and reported uptake between Republicans and Democrats [10, 7, 8, 13] have already had serious consequences for the severity and trajectory of the pandemic in the United States.
> Excess deaths was because the medical infrastructure was overwhelmed. So ICU services were not available as normal.
I'm a bit confused how you come to this conclusion when the section you quote from the report says the lack of vaccination uptake is to blame along party lines.
overwhelmed medical infrastructure would hit both political parties equally. Unless you're suggesting that democrats in Florida have access to democrat-only-hospitals...
But also yes, some of this poetic justice.