Zone1 What "progressive" policies have turned out well in the past 50 years?

[jwoodie]

I was trying to think of a "progressive" policy that has worked out well during the past 50 years, but I couldn't come up with any. Can you?

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

I was trying to think of a "progressive" policy that has worked out well during the past 50 years, but I couldn't come up with any. Can you?

getting rid of 60 million democrap worthless illegitimates who would be nothing but trouble...all i can think of

 

[progressive hunter]

I was trying to think of a "progressive" policy that has worked out well during the past 50 years, but I couldn't come up with any. Can you?

worked well is a matter of perspective,,

to a prog the downgrading of life in america and more people dependent on the government is a good thing

 

[MarathonMike]

So I take your question as "What Democrat policy has actually benefited Americans?" I come up with one, Social Security. That's all I got. Oh wait you said the last 50 years. Then it's zero.

 

[progressive hunter]

So I take your question as "What Democrat policy has actually benefited Americans?" I come up with one, Social Security. That's all I got. Oh wait you said the last 50 years. Then it's zero.

except SS is a failure and only exist because they steal money from other programs to keep it afloat,,

 

[MarathonMike]

except SS is a failure and only exist because they steal money from other programs to keep it afloat,,

It's a grossly mismanaged and inefficient program for sure. But it has benefited many Americans as opposed to the other insane Democrat programs.

 

[progressive hunter]

It's a grossly mismanaged and inefficient program for sure. But it has benefited many Americans as opposed to the other insane Democrat programs.

they would do better to teach finances in schools to teach children how to plan for the future,,

my guess it was put in place to get more people under government control,,

 

[alang1216]

I was trying to think of a "progressive" policy that has worked out well during the past 50 years, but I couldn't come up with any. Can you?

Others may have had different experiences but I personally benefited greatly from Obamacare. Keeping my kids on until they turned 26 was a windfall and cost the insurance companies almost nothing. Win, win. I know of others who benefited by the elimination of pre-existing condition restrictions. Our country's healthcare system is horrible but the ADA was an improvement and would likely have been even better if the GOP had not been trying to sabotage it for mainly political reasons.

 

[Lisa558]

Others may have had different experiences but I personally benefited greatly from Obamacare. Keeping my kids on until they turned 26 was a windfall and cost the insurance companies almost nothing. Win, win. I know of others who benefited by the elimination of pre-existing condition restrictions. Our country's healthcare system is horrible but the ADA was an improvement and would likely have been even better if the GOP had not been trying to sabotage it for mainly political reasons.

It was a disaster for me. Not only did the plan I had and liked disappear, but my premium and deductible both went up significantly. And my regular doctor didn’t accept it, so I had to switch.

Then, to make matters worse, I developed a medical condition (since resolved, but took years) for which NO specialist was in-network and nobody would accept the Obamacare plan. After days on the phone, calling every specialist within a 50-mile radius, I finally found one who would accept cash, based on what Medicare would have paid. So, in addition to the higher premiums, I had to pay for my doctor. I was out a fortune, and yet Obama considered me “insured.”

The only thing that allowed me to escape the nightmare of Ocare was turning 65.

 

[Greenbeard]

I was trying to think of a "progressive" policy that has worked out well during the past 50 years, but I couldn't come up with any. Can you?

Unambiguously it's health care reform.

Today health care costs the same share of the economy as it did in 2010 (i.e., relative growth in health care costs since the Affordable Care Act passed has been zero). That cost slowdown shows up everywhere--including in the long-term federal budget picture which brightened due to the fact that 45 years of steady real per beneficiary cost growth in Medicare abruptly stopped when the Affordable Care Act passed and hasn't resumed since. Wild, unprecedented stuff.

Meanwhile, the uninsurance rate is at an all-time low.

And there's voluminous evidence of its positive impact on health care quality and people's health (with respect to cancer care, infant mortality, maternal mortality, cardiac outcomes, chronic conditions, reductions in medical errors, etc).

"Worked out well" would be a vast understatement.

 

[progressive hunter]

Others may have had different experiences but I personally benefited greatly from Obamacare. Keeping my kids on until they turned 26 was a windfall and cost the insurance companies almost nothing. Win, win. I know of others who benefited by the elimination of pre-existing condition restrictions. Our country's healthcare system is horrible but the ADA was an improvement and would likely have been even better if the GOP had not been trying to sabotage it for mainly political reasons.

freeloaders usually do benefit from progressive policy,,

since obamacare our rates have almost tripled and the coverage has gone down,,

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Well, they sure have "progressed" society right back to the day when a person is judged on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character, haven't they?

 

[alang1216]

freeloaders usually do benefit from progressive policy,,

My family pays more in taxes than many earn in a year so I feel no guilt.

since obamacare our rates have almost tripled and the coverage has gone down,,

Sorry to hear that but your experience may be an outlier. Older data but I think the trends are similar today:

 

[otto105]

I was trying to think of a "progressive" policy that has worked out well during the past 50 years, but I couldn't come up with any. Can you?

The PPACA

The EPA

OSHA

The Civil Rights Law

Fair Housing Law

Non-Discrimination Laws

Minimum Wage Law

Examples of great conservative policies in last 50 years

Declaring an embryo a child

 

[AHZ]

except SS is a failure and only exist because they steal money from other programs to keep it afloat,,

it depends on if you think old people and poor people living is a plus or a minus.

population reduction nazis and environementalists and libertarians hate poor people living.

 

[progressive hunter]

it depends on if you think old people and poor people living is a plus or a minus.

population reduction nazis and environementalists and libertarians hate poor people living.

if you say so,,

 

[AHZ]

if you say so,,

thank you for your ideological compliance in this matter.

 

[progressive hunter]

thank you for your ideological compliance in this matter.

that doesnt make sense,,

 

[AHZ]

if you say so,,

if endless wars are fine to pay for, taking care of the elderly is a drop in the bucket.

Im a trumper by the way.

 

[progressive hunter]

if endless wars are fine to pay for, taking care of the elderly is a drop in the bucket.

Im a trumper by the way.

why are you OK with paying for endless wars??
I sure aint,,