Whenever we read someone say, "We can't afford it" as a reason why we can't have universal healthcare, we should read that as, "I don't want black and brown-skinned people to have access to health care too."
@danwentzel if Elon Musk can afford to build shitty robots no one wants and force the FDA to allow him to implant decades-behind-state-of-the-art neural chips and can literally afford to pay people to play video games on his accounts for the social cachet
if we can afford a yacht tax break
if we can afford TWO private space companies, one of which is putting us at high risk of kessler syndrome
if we can afford an entire industry of gatekeepers for medical access
if we can afford "college football" where coaches are paid millions of dollars
we can FUCKING afford health care
