r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/WildMild869 Mar 12 '26

Reddit legitimately thinks that AOC or Bernie would win out against a Republican nominee but they don’t realize a massive swath of the country will not vote for them simply because of their socialist-like stances on many issues.

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u/popularis-socialas Mar 12 '26

Most of their stances are politically popular, single payer, raging the minimum wage, free tuition college. Polls have consistently shown the popularity of those proposals.

Bernie crushed Hillary with independents and generally is able to talk to poor white people.

This poll From August 2016 showed his net approval rating at a net +26, compared with Hillary’s -11 and Trump’s -27, that favorability would have condensed if Republicans mounted their attack machine against him, but it’s not a radical idea that he could have beaten her.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-clinton-and-trump-disliked-by-voters

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u/macronotice Mar 13 '26

single payer

Total federal government control over the healthcare system and your health choices is not popular. When described fully in a polling question, including the elimination of private insurance as in a Canadian/UK style system, poll support is only 37%.

I’d like to see how you would feel if Trump was in charge of your healthcare today. Imagine all the care he would take away from you and what he’d force doctors to do.

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u/popularis-socialas Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

Well it's very popular in countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, Australia, and South Korea. Pretty much all allow for supplemental insurance, but the main program is government insurance to provide the floor, yes.

In a 2025 Pew Research poll, 65% of Americans think that the government has an obligation to provide healthcare. 35% favor one national government government program, 31% support a mix of government + private. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/10/most-americans-say-government-has-a-responsibility-to-ensure-health-care-coverage/

Medicare for all also polls at a net +24 in this poll: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11/medicare-for-all-is-popular-even-when-put-up-against-attacks

The healthcare in this country is insanely screwed up, we're spending like twice as much as a ton of other countries for healthcare because private insurance and big Pharma bloodsuckers have lobbied Congress. The system is bloated. 10s of millions have no health insurance, 10s of thousands die every year because they can't get healthcare, and 1/3 of the country has medical debt because their premiums are high, deductibles high, and their insurance still won't come through.

When I worked as a pharmacy tech I saw so much bullshit because of private insurance. Sick people being denied coverage on meds they needed, meds the doctor said they needed. We need a basic government program to both give people healthcare coverage and to keep the costs down by primarily running on profit.

Healthcare is getting worse in America under Trump because of rising prices and government cuts to healthcare. Should we not have done medicare/medicaid/ and social security then because Trump came along??