“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”

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    1 month ago

    Germany isn’t single payer. It has a complicated dual system with public and private insurance allowing the highest earners and civil servants to go private, i.e. outside the solidarity system which causes the whole structure to collapse.

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      It’s also not universal, at least it wasn’t when I lived there: it’s payed for either by your employer or by social/unemployment office.

      So there’s situations where you don’t have it, e.g. when you’re self-employed you’re expected to take care of it your self.