What exactly is this “choice” the regressive right keeps blathering on about? Are they proposing multiple medicaid systems that people can choose between? No, that can’t be it - they hate medicaid. Maybe they just mean that people will be able to choose between insurance they can’t afford and no insurance. But that’s a choice with only two options, and thus is no choicier than the current choice - no insurance or insurance people can afford - so that doesn’t make sense either.
So that leaves us where we started: still confused on what they mean by “choice”. I’m sure I’m just missing something… Maybe they measure choiciness in a different way? Or, more probably, I’m just too stupid to keep up with right wing policy brilliance.
I will say this: one thing we can be sure it’s not is a fabricated, bullshit talking point… Yeah, there’s no way it’s just a strawman sourced from thier Ayn Randian religion for the purpose of propaganda in their war on compassion, empathy, and the social safety nets that arise from a society that has those qualities. They’d never set up a ridiculous strawman like that, right? I mean, surely their base would see right through it, no?