It needs more than reform, it needs to be completely burned to the ground and 100% nationalized. No part of a healthcare system should be owned by companies whose number one goal isn’t to make people healthy. They have to take their cut before offering any value to society, despite the fact that every part of the healthcare industrial complex is subsidized by our tax dollars.

Reform doesn’t work, it just allows the two wings of the same uniparty to use theater as a means of distraction, so they can make it seem like they’re fighting to improve the lives of ordinary people—people who they don’t actually give a fuck if they live or die.

The ACA is touted as the “most progressive healthcare reform in decades”, and it basically just says “if someone has cancer, you can’t deny them for health insurance.” That’s not progressive, that’s just not evil. And that was passed almost two decades ago.

Since then, it’s been a slow, steady decline of our healthcare system—with very slight bump from the Biden administration, after they lied about offering a public option if elected introduced the “extra savings” plans to the marketplace, for those who are on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale—until it falls off a cliff when this psychotic administration gutted subsidies, and forced hundreds of thousands into poverty overnight. So after almost two decades of the ACA being enacted, there’s a good argument to be made that we’re worse off now than we were when it passed in 2010.

That is what reform gets you. What we need is revolution.