Democrats ran on health care in 2020. In this year’s draft platform, it gets a handful of bullet points.
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.
Universal Healthcare was a losing platform because it was vilified as being “communism”. It also didn’t sit well with wealthy donors and rich democrats.
It also wasn’t part of Biden’s agenda. Obamacare was.
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.
Saving the democracy is at the front and center. January 6th treason, countless lawsuits for election denial/tampering, Trump found selling national secrets from his bathroom, found guilty for raping, convicted on 34 counts of felony, project 2025 promising end of democracy, and yet Trump getting nominated by GOP - all of this happens in last 3.5 years. Republicans have openly embraced dictatorship since last presidential election.
Actually following up on major efforts like universal healthcare would go a long way to ensuring the Democrats continue to win at the ballot box., since their odds of winning are based entirely on turnout and people are sick of campaign promises being ignored.
Learn how a bill becomes law and you will realize why and how important it is to get as many Dems elected as possible.
Last time Dems had trifecta (2021-22) they had 50-50 senate - with 2 asshole republicans disguised as Dems (Sinema and Manchin) who blocked every progressive bills such as election integrity laws, immigration, reproductive rights. Of course that doesn’t absolve actual repubes. In fact not even 10 out of 50 republican senators had balls to stand up for what’s right.
I have commented on Kamala's pre-Biden support for Medicare For All several times only to be ruthlessly downvoted. Glad the same thing did not happen here. This reversal only indicates that she doesn't actually believe in anything and shifts with the political winds.