The 2024 Democratic Party platform contains little emphasis on healthcare compared to previous years, despite it remaining a top concern for voters. The draft platform obtained by Politico in July does not mention a “public option” or “universal healthcare,” reverting from the party’s 2020 platform that had outlined reforms like a public insurance option. While the Biden administration has touted record-low uninsured rates and taken some steps to lower healthcare costs, such as capping insulin copays, overall healthcare affordability remains a major challenge. Premiums for employer-provided family plans continue to rise faster than wages and inflation, and over 40% of adults report having medical debt. The 2024 platform’s light treatment of healthcare is a disappointing shift from the more ambitious proposals of the past. Progressives who had pushed for policies like Medicare for All will need to mount a renewed effort to keep healthcare as a central priority for the Democratic Party. The party’s own rhetoric in 2020 about healthcare being a “right, not a privilege” must be upheld, and voters should demand that candidates put forth concrete plans to achieve truly universal, affordable healthcare coverage.
Every time Democrats bring big ideas, gun control, healthcare, the rabbid Republicans come out in the midterms and vote the Democrats out.
Meanwhile the youth never gets energized enough because they think winning one election is all it should take and if you don’t have universal healthcare by March you’re a sellout and they’ll stop voting.
Real change means voting in EVERY election, starting locally and going up, for decades.
That’s what the Republicans have done and they’ve captchured a bunch of governments and institutions.
heard this my entire life as did my father who was told by his dad
no progress is not won over night, but it has been several lifetimes worth of over nights and the time to shit or get off the pot is now