Nabilah Islam, A Millennial running for Georgia 7th Congressional District Rep on progressive agenda

[egbertowillies]

Nabilah Islam, Georgia 7th Congressional district candidate talks with Politics Done Right about the progressive agenda she intends to win on.

https://politicsdoneright.com/2019/11/nabilah-islam-progressive/

[OnDoutside]

1. Good interview, Nabilah comes across very well. I would suggest she has a good think about her MFA

stance, which she may want to nuance, in light of the battering EW is receiving because of it. I think she will find as a result of EW, people are more aware of just what it may mean in terms of private healthcare, and it is being weaponised by the opposition. Fixing the ACA, lower drug costs, a public option and helping those who still can't afford their own healthcare policy is still really progressive, but it will neutralise attacks against her.

[egbertowillies]

2. Thanks for your thoughtful comment

[MasonDreams]

3. Have you ever been to a doctor or hospital in the USA ?

Do you work in the "healthcare industry"?
Do you profit from monkey wenching Heath care policy in the USA? And while I am at it MFA is the abbreviation for a master's degree in fine arts and your advice is bad. The tranquilizing drug of gradualism will not save the lives of people who may need it now or in the next ten years.
I have no ill will towards UK or Ireland, the isles will always have my love and support. But who are you to be supporting the thieves in the USA who are letting us die after they take all our money?
The corruption and extremely diverse population make our situation very different.

[OnDoutside]

4. Donald Trump.

You go ahead and fight a MFA battle on the hill of taking away people's private healthcare, and come back to me when the US has President for Life Trump. I make no apology for saying that is THE most important focus of our lifetime. And it affects me too, because what Putin does to America, he is also doing to us in the EU. The world needs a Democratic US President, to lead the world against populism, and nothing (including purity politics) must be allowed to get in the way of that.

I work for a US pharma company, my wife works for a different US pharma company, even my brother and his wife work for two other US pharma companies. My opinion has fuck all to do with them. My other brother (who has a C5 fracture) lives in Florida and is on a shittier Workers Comp package because of Jeb Bush, than if he had filed in New York. His wife is a nurse, whose colleague died from cancer because the same hospital fired her for taking too much time off for Chemo. Without pay, she couldn't afford the drugs, and died.

I believe that affordable healthcare is a basic human right, and where people can't afford it, the government should provide it for them. The winnable argument is to fix the ACA, fix the exchanges, reduce drug costs, add a public option (like Obama originally wanted to do) and make it free where people are too poor to contribute. The American people have learnt a hard lesson that the ACA made people's lives better, and those changes will be non controversial, while allowing the Democrats to freely kick Republicans ad nauseum, for trying to take healthcare away from 32m. Fighting a fight (that even Warren is backing away from) will breathe life into the GOP when they are being lined up for a shell-lacking. There is no sense to it.

And as for Public v Private, here in Ireland, we have a mix. The Public system here is good, if you can get into it, once through the waiting lists. Money isn't the issue, it's largely down to mismanagement and the unions. Whether it's the Manager's Union, Admin Staff Union, Consultant's Union, Doctor's Union, Nurses Union, Canteen staff Union, Janitor Union, Ambulance Union etc, they ALL know where the figurative bodies are buried, all the waste, but none of them will say it because they'd be afraid someone else would rat them out.

[MasonDreams]

6. I think our private system is too corrupt.

Insurance companies are in the business to make money.
Unions can't help, less than 10% of workers are in a union and money has bought lawmakers to weaken unions. Their influence has declined steadily since 1980.
When I was a toddler President Kennedy called for single payer/public option. So now we are compromising on health care policy months before the Iowa caucuses. People are desperate, that is in despair, w/o even hope for change. We have been compromised into the dirt, literally. Enough
Life expectancy is falling in the USA. Suicide rates for my demographic in my area have tripled.
I think that's why that Hitler like monster is in the White House.
I would like to apologise for making a personal attack on someone I don't even know, you.
My older brother called me and told me he was dying, and he doesn't have physical health problems. I look to our idealistic youth for hope, and even if they start murdering our heroes like the 1960's our ideas will prevail. We are not going to wait another lifetime.we must start listening to the youth now. You go girl.

[OnDoutside]

7. You're grand, no problems.

Corruption is endemic in industries where the regulators are weak, or the regulation is poor. One of the biggest reasons for the Irish banking collapse was due to the Regulator being in league with the bankers. Whenever I hear a private industry spokesman talking about "red tape" hurting their industry, it makes me concerned that there's a campaign to weaken that regulation.

Unions have a very important role to play in protecting workers rights but all too often the leaders are cosying up with the employers, in fact here, frequently the top union negotiators end up jumping over to the employers side. People are leaving unions because they don't see the protections that they are supposed to be paying for. There's a definite shake up needed, here anyway.

I've said it here previously but, when this whole healthcare debate started with Bernie, and then quickly followed by EW and Kamala Harris, Pod Save America did a show on it, and I remember Jon Lovett pointing out the hazards with MFA. He talked reality about it, and that was before the discussion developed on cost. He suggested fixing the ACA, and taking a copy of Medicare (iirc) to use as the public option, plus fixing the drug costs etc. Don't forget there's a bi-partisan bill to do almost all that, but Trump got it stopped. The Republicans were desperate to do that deal, because it's a millstone around their necks. Beat Trump, and take back the Senate, and this will be done.

I'm sorry to hear about your brother, I wish you both well and I hope you get to spend time with him.

I'm reminded of President Obama's interview recently, where he talked about incremental progress, yes there will be setbacks but the inexorable movement is forwards, not backwards. My gut feeling, is that if this is an election about Trump and the GOP, I believe this will be as, if not more defining, than the 2018 midterms.

[MasonDreams]

8. Thank you for your kind words

[The Animator]

5. I doubt the Republican campaign will rely much on nuance.

The attack ads against her will not be parsing whether she supports Medicare for all or fixing the ADA.

she’s running in Georgia and her last name is Islam..
It’ll be a southern strategy redux with ample islamophobia for extra spice. The only question is will it be overt, Or will every dog in the district be going nuts...