Cindy Banda faces mounting medical bills after battling breast cancer. Despite the single mother's positive outlook, the financial strain combined with the high cost of living is overwhelming.

That’s true for many Americans, as rising healthcare costs leave more families with a sinking feeling after seeing the bill for surgery or medication. Heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, about half of registered voters said healthcare costs are a major problem for them and their families, up from a little more than one-third four years ago, according to a Fox News poll from September.

With party control of Congress at stake, registered voters are nearly twice as likely to say they trust Democrats over Republicans to handle healthcare, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from the same month. Those frustrations, combined with broader concerns over rising prices, have sapped support for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.

  • watson@sopuli.xyz
    48·
    23 hours ago

    It saddens me that I can’t bring myself to feel bad for her. Three fucking times she voted for this shit. Three. It’s mind-numbing and I hate it.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.socialEnglish
      81·
      10 hours ago

      I keep coming back to the horrified astonishment I felt in late 2025. It was kinda excusable in 2016. But after already having seen what he did to the country for 4 years, and then after Jan 6…

      And mind you, my demented, ever conservative, ever pro-capitalist and btw also pro-apartheid father, even he thinks Trump is an idiot who should be nowhere near political power.

      What’s the answer here? Seems the USA have a deeper problem. I think it’s that particularly poisonous combination of consumer capitalism on steroids, and generations of lack of or plain bad education that’s often more aligned with capitalist interests. Oh and the history of “The American Dream”, i.e. hope that you’re the one out of a thousand who succeeds in raping everything and everyone around you for financial gain.

      • WizardOfFrobozz@lemmy.ca
        1·
        4 minutes ago

        It was nowhere near excusable in 2016. You already had decades of information about who trump was and nearly a decade of the Tea Party showing you EXACTLY the kind of people they were.

    • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
      23·
      21 hours ago

      I think the thing I miss most since Trumps first run is my sense of empathy and sympathy. I used to have a belief of sure there’s disagreement and there’s room for it. Fuck that noise now. Republicans keep voting to hurt my friends consistently. At this point anyone says they’re a republican I assume they’ve lost all sense of humanity, and the head of their party at this point has zero redeeming qualities… even amongst his supporters his chronic backstabbing can’t stop.