# Do we have a thread for SlackerInc yet? Maybe we should

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**Created:** [December 2, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461 "2018-12-02T20:21:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-thread-for-slackerinc-yet-maybe-we-should/825461/148 "2019-08-03T13:53:58Z")

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I am at least being pragmatic and trying to get at least basic health care coverage (if not necessarily as good as mine) for everyone who does not currently have it. You apparently feel that it is better to sit on a high horse and express condemnation of anyone not as morally pure as you. :rolleyes:

> [@The dangerous politics of Medicare For All](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dangerous-politics-of-medicare-for-all/837922/79):
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> I said right up front that the American voters who are decisive in national elections are not great people. But we have to curry favor with them to win even if it is nauseating. Would you prefer to just be pure and lose? How many people get healthcare that way?
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> And if you think swing voters are not as shitty and selfish as that, look again at the poll numbers I linked. Only 26% would support MFA if it would “lead to delays in some people getting certain medical tests and treatments”. 26% is actually a large number of people. Many tens of millions, and I’m sure you are one of them. But it’s not enough to keep from giving completely shellacked by the Republicans in the election—in which case you end up without half a loaf, or even a crumb of a loaf.

Just in case my wording there is not clear, that is 26% of all Americans, not of swing voters.

ETA:

> [@raventhief](#):
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> I had a pharmacist say something sort of similar when I got my scripts filled- something was $0, something else was$1, and she remarked that I have great insurance to cover these so well (or something)

Epic #humblebrag there :rolleyes:

YWTF: Are you not aware that those “sad sacks” include swing voters in Wisconsin?

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