My dudes, we have nothing to lose but our chains
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Trump used to support a Canadian-style, single-payer health care plan. However, the closer he got to the presidency, the more he backed away from that. Funny how that works.
I mean, it takes minimum 150k per year to raise a family in the US, so that tracks.
It's getting to the point where I'm staying to wonder if i should just pay my own way with healthcare. If i only go to the doctor 2x a year and it's like $150 per visit, then I'll be saving a cool $25,000 that i could have wasted on insurance. I just have to make sure i don't have any emergencies or car accidents that require a trip to the hospital... 🤔
For right now they legally have to stabilize you if you walk into a hospital. So uh. Just saying
Just don't have any ID on you and use as little English as possible.
They won't treat you. Like you'd still have a broken bone but you wouldn't be in a state of "dying within the next 24 hours" anymore. Which is nice...
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How can there still RELATIVELY many people be able to have kids financially? The fertility rate in most european countries in comparison is lower, although we have affordable healthcare (well compared to the US at least).
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Wait... when the government gives people money... that sounds like... SOCIALISM.
This is to point out his hypocrisy, not even to note that this is a stupid way of distributing money (it just goes into the hands of middle men) and only intends to generate some good sounding news instead of actually solving a problem
I can't tell if this is sarcastic, but I'll respond the same way regardless.
This is not socialism. Government provided social programs or financial assistance are a basic function of governance. Virtually every government on Earth does this, whether democratic, authoritarian, or communist.
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"It's only $26,000 that's like the price of a single bottle of wine. Why are the peasants complaining?"
26,000 for a high deductible plan.
So you can get 2k, to spend 26K, to spend 10K in deductibles before insurance covers a damn thing.
Brilliant!
Remember when they unveiled "the plan" many years ago? Huge stacks of paper, it looked very comprehensive indeed.
Of course, all the pages were blank. IT WAS TOP SECRET, YOU SEE, INVISIBLE INK!
Now, I'm wondering what was on the other 20K pages after the "$2000 credit a year" page. That was invisible. Eight years ago? Ten? I hate it here
$26000?? In Germany, which is neither known for a bad nor for a cheap health care system, the maximum a person is able to pay is 11299.68 € regardless of the number of family members who are included. Ok - if both parents are working the family might pay up to 22599.36 €, but only if both parents were earning more than the cut-off. The majority of people pays far less.
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Ten years. Presumably, if he was working on it in earnest he’d have started in 2016. And if he truly had the best interests of Americans in mind, he could have continued on it during the Biden years.
Of course he doesn’t and never did have Americans best interest in mind.
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