healthcare

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healthcare is control

healthcare is not just about life and death. it is about control.

when healthcare is tied to employment, you do not have full freedom over your life. you work not just to live, but to stay alive. the threat of sickness is a leash, keeping people tethered to jobs they cannot leave because losing healthcare means losing everything. the people who hold our healthcare in their hands hold power over us. project 2025, and the policies that come with it, are about tightening that grip.

cuts to medicaid and medicare will leave millions without care. raising the retirement age for social security means forcing people to work longer before they can afford to stop. removing caps on out-of-pocket medicare costs will push necessary medications out of reach.

without healthcare, you are not just sick. you are vulnerable.

when government policies block the ability to negotiate drug prices, they are not looking out for you. they are protecting the profits of pharmaceutical companies. when they propose lifetime caps on medicaid, they are making it clear that some people, the poor and disabled especially, are not worth keeping alive. when they gut funding for public health programs, they are creating a system where only those who can afford care will survive.

this is not incompetence. this is design.

they will tell you that healthcare is too expensive to maintain, but then shift the tax burden onto working-class families while giving tax breaks to the ultra-rich. they will say they are reducing government spending, but in reality, they are making sure those at the bottom bear the cost while those at the top profit.

they will tell you that you should work harder, earn more, and take care of yourself. but they are the ones creating a system where that is impossible.

mutual care is survival

they want us to believe we are alone. they want us to believe that when we lose our job, our healthcare, or our ability to work, there is no safety net. but we are not powerless.

we take care of each other. we always have.

• organize - workplace protections, unions, and local advocacy groups can push back against the stripping of benefits.
• mutual aid matters - community networks can provide support when the government fails. food banks, free clinics, and mutual aid funds can mean the difference between survival and suffering.
• talk to each other - isolation is a tool of control. having open conversations about what is happening, about how policies affect real people, keeps the truth visible.
• push back locally - state and local governments still have power. pressure them to pass policies that protect access to healthcare, regulate pharmaceutical prices, and push back against federal overreach.
• vote while you still can - the goal of these policies is to strip away the ability to resist. do not let them make you too exhausted to fight.

we cannot wait until healthcare is fully privatized, until social security is gutted, until medicaid disappears. we have seen what happens when people lose access to healthcare: they work themselves to death or they die in poverty.

they count on us being too tired, too sick, too desperate to push back.

they do not win unless we let them.