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How could BIDEN do This!
-Free Thinking Alpha Wolf Republicans!
so a common excuse why people are not protesting is that they need to work to keep healthcare and not just drop dead... I guess at this point the rest of the world celebrates another 300K that don't have that excuse anymore?
Americans still have to work to pay for their healthcare. It will cost even more now.
No health care insurance in America means you cannot pay for health care period. The majority of people with not enough money to pay for the rip off that is American health care insurance will certainly not be able to pay for actual American Healthcare
What you are saying is akin to "the bank denied my loan, now I have to buy the house cash only"... that will never happen, there will be no house for this hypothetical example person
A hospital in the US can’t just let you die because you don’t have insurance. So when somebody is in a dire situation and isn’t insured their debt will usually be sold for pennies on the dollar to a debt collector, who will then make their life hell in ways that aren’t always legal, and the difference is just absorbed by the hospital who will then raise prices on others to compensate. Thus healthcare will cost more especially if more people are removed from having insurance or other coverage. I believe this is what the person you were responding to was trying to point out.
another whoosh…
also, good time to point out again what a nightmare ofea "system" they have
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.
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.
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.
They're not "finding" shit. They're legit stealing from everyone else but themselves and we're letting them.
Is this the "both sides" I keep hearing about? As in, "we're gonna kill everyone on both sides of our borders."
How much would that actually save? The people getting cut probably use a below average amount of healthcare. Definitely not $666,666.66 each.
Math doesn't have to work out for them to kick people off health care
Living in a very gop place that is too expensive to leave, this will be exactly what they want 😞 “healthcare for me, not for thee that can’t “get it cheap off the gubbamemt””