• Rusticus@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    In other news, 31% of Coloradans are brain dead. Likely because of lack of access to affordable healthcare.

  • MisterD@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    But do they send money to these lawmakers? Noooo

    It’s not like lawmakers work for free!

    /s

  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    And what? 31% died waiting for insurance to cover some medical shit they needed?

    Or maybe they were young people who haven’t used the healthcare system at all.

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      Or maybe they were young people who haven’t used the healthcare system at all.

      This has been my personal experience. There isn’t much overlap between folks who think the US has a good healthcare system and folks who have actually needed to use said system.

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        I’m more an outlier, but I have stage 5 kidney failure (at 42) and I’m on dialysis. It’s roughly $750,000 a year +meds so closer to 800k. I’ve paid about $200 over a year and a half. With Medicare, Medicare, and my work insurance.

        The bills are absolutely absurd, but they’re all paid. That being said, they should be nowhere near that high, and just because I’m not racking up bills doesn’t mean it’s ok. But I am glad everything is covered for me at least with the current shit health insurance system.

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      18 hours ago

      I imagine if Tron were just coming out it would be Elon Musk as Jeff Bridges giving the speech in the movie. In there… Is… our… destiny!

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    And politicians will fix this by giving even less people remotely acceptable healthcare instead of stopping the rampant financial and human abuse by healthcare and insurance CEOs and their cronies

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      20 hours ago

      They’ll ‘fix’ it by giving cash payments to wealthy healthcare provider networks, who will then in turn raise prices and put Coloradans right back at square one, and the cycle will repeat. Politicians exist to funnel our tax dollars to their donors and friends.

  • frongt@lemmy.zip
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    So what? Why would anyone say “no, I wish my healthcare was more expensive!”

    If you poll them on if they want their taxes lowered, they’d say yes to that too.