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GOP May Kick 300,000 More Off Healthcare to Help Find $200 Billion for Trump's Iran War
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People will still get emergency care, even if they can’t afford it. They go bankrupt. They will forgo preventative treatment, but this is kicking the can down the road and leads to a net increase in medical costs in the long run.
In any case, your original comment about people having more free time to protest because they don’t have to go to work to keep their insurance is nonsense. The ones getting kicked off their insurance are not the ones getting it through their employers. They are getting it through the ACA marketplace, i.e. purchasing it themselves. Even if they were losing work-subsidized health insurance, they would still have to work because other things people need cost money too. Things like food and (as you mentioned) housing.
whoosh
No, I don’t think so
double whoosh
For there to be a whoosh, there needs to be a joke that was taken at face value. I got that you were trying to make a snarky comment about the people getting kicked off health insurance, but those people aren’t the ones who get their insurance through their employers, so your “joke” doesn’t land.