My supervisor at work has 2 broken teeth and one is cracking, he can’t have food on his right side of his mouth and about once a month has go eat soft foods because the cracked tooth on his left side hurts again.
Another coworker has a knife wound because he managed to slice his arm open with his own folding knife (not suicidal just stupid), and he’s just self-treating even though it looks infected.
I have had bronchitis multiple times in my life when I didn’t have any insurance and even when I was so weak it took all my strength to crawl to the bathroom, going without eating for several days because I can’t make it downstairs to the kitchen, because just the urgent care visit would have sent me into years of debt.
My sister ignored signs of cancer until her daughter asked her to go to the doctor. It could have been operated on if she had gone earlier. Now it’s chemo and fingers crossed.
This shithole country kicks people when they’re down andat least 1/3 of the population is polishing the boot as the rich are kicking us.
I feel bad for the americans who want to effect GOOD change
The worst part is so many americans are convinced that actually most Americans want half good, half bad policy; free healthcare is too far left, but theres definitely a cohort of voters who wont vote for that, but will vote for means-tested subsidies for health insurance companies, and that running on that policy is smarter than running on policy anyone actually wants.
We’re paying twice as much for it, but getting less and worse care because most of that money is going to death panels and shitbags like David Cordani, Patrick Conway, and Mark Bertolini.
Don’t forget all the time we have to waste arguing with insurance companies to get them to cover our wife’s ongoing chemotherapy even though nothing has fucking changed
A) its not universal because plenty of people don’t have coverage.
B) many of our insurance companies and “healthcare providers” are for profit and traded on the stock market, so our premiums are going to shareholders, with just enough paying for actual treatment to keep all of us from going full Luigi
While I was living in Seattle it was: $3.3k/mo for rent, like $500 utilities, about $1k for food (I was feeding me and another person, we ate out maybe once every couple months, I did go a bit fancy with our cooking), various things like gym and other stuff to keep my sanity brought it all up to about $5.5k/mo. My health insurance was through my work and I paid about $1.2k and they paid about $2k but that was all handled before I got my paychecks.
So in Seattle at least the answer is make at least $100k/yr before tax, don’t have kids, don’t have a car, be in reasonably good health, have a job that pays for most your insurance premiums, and never have a medical emergency. Or live in a house with 6 other people and dumpster dive for food. Or just go massively into debt.
Honestly the best thing skilled Americans could do is leave. Changing things would be better but honestly simply leaving in droves could already change things for the better ironically enough.
I spent years trying to change things. Protests, donating to younger people more capable of direct action than me, building community, and yes voting too because we have to use all our tools. It became too dangerous for my aging trans ass and I managed to find myself in a position to move to Sweden. I don’t know if I’ll ever stop feeling guilty about it but it’s so much better outside the US. I’m still giving what I can to my community back in the US but at this point it’s more like using scotch tape to fix a stab wound. You better believe though if the US comes for Greenland I’m going to do everything I can to help my new neighbors
Hey. Don’t feel bad about leaving. You’ve done what you could and then did what you needed to in order to keep yourself safe. If what you say is true you’ve done an order of magnitude more work towards a better world than the majority of people.
I think we need good people left in this country to have a chance to try and turn things around, but I’ll never be upset with someone who left for their own good. There’s enough of us that can’t leave, or won’t leave, that we’ll never become irrelevant here. The fight will go on until death do us part, for better or for worse.
You better believe though if the US comes for Greenland I’m going to do everything I can to help my new neighbors
Do it, and don’t feel bad about it. If the US comes for Greenland I’m on the side of Greenland. Same for Canada, same for Mexico, same for anyone else whose sovereign borders are being threatened. Know that no matter what happens you still have friends here on the inside.
To afford everything you just need to be disabled, then you get health care, food support, monthly income, and rent help. If the top 10% paid their taxes then everyone can get these benefits.
Can’t tell if sarcastic. Too many people legit think this way.
Being disabled means having to be scrutinized regularly by government authority, by filling out endless paper forms in an attempt to justify your disability to someone with a vested interest in not believing you. I helped my girlfriend fill out disability forms last year. It’s particularly cruel because she can only use her hands for brief bursts of time before needing to rest. Sometimes she sends me voice recordings instead of texts so she can respond to me, because her hands simply can’t type everything she wants to say. Yet she’s given page after page of questions about her abilities, the chores she’s capable of completing, the hobbies she has, and so on, all so someone who’s never met her (or worse, probably an AI) can poke holes in her story and deny her claims.
Not really being sarcastic, I am on SSI and have been for 15+ years. Was denied twice, even with the State declaring that I am disabled. To get SSI you have to get a lawyer to file certain paperwork. Went to several doctors that the government wanted me to. Luckily I also had a psychiatrist and a therapist so my mental disorder was on record. Also had a county case manager who put I so much work to make sure that I went to the correct adult foster home and found the lawyer I needed. That isn’t even scratching the surface of the paperwork I have to go through every year just to keep my CADI funding.
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A lot don’t get insurance and just hope they don’t die?
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Enraging and 100% true. About 11% of working age Americans have no health insurance.
Consider also how many people have health insurance but cant afford to use it?
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But hey, you go from having to pay 20 lifetimes worth of crippling debt to only 5 lifetimes worth of crippling debt, look on the bright side
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Its definitely not a circle, but the middle portion is big enough to make me lose hope for humanity.
Literally true. I’ve lost two friends this way.
Literally, yes.
My supervisor at work has 2 broken teeth and one is cracking, he can’t have food on his right side of his mouth and about once a month has go eat soft foods because the cracked tooth on his left side hurts again.
Another coworker has a knife wound because he managed to slice his arm open with his own folding knife (not suicidal just stupid), and he’s just self-treating even though it looks infected.
I have had bronchitis multiple times in my life when I didn’t have any insurance and even when I was so weak it took all my strength to crawl to the bathroom, going without eating for several days because I can’t make it downstairs to the kitchen, because just the urgent care visit would have sent me into years of debt.
My sister ignored signs of cancer until her daughter asked her to go to the doctor. It could have been operated on if she had gone earlier. Now it’s chemo and fingers crossed.
This shithole country kicks people when they’re down andat least 1/3 of the population is polishing the boot as the rich are kicking us.
Yes
The worst part is so many americans are convinced that actually most Americans want half good, half bad policy; free healthcare is too far left, but theres definitely a cohort of voters who wont vote for that, but will vote for means-tested subsidies for health insurance companies, and that running on that policy is smarter than running on policy anyone actually wants.
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We dont though, tons of people forgo healthcare because they can’t afford it.
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We’re paying twice as much for it, but getting less and worse care because most of that money is going to death panels and shitbags like David Cordani, Patrick Conway, and Mark Bertolini.
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Don’t forget all the time we have to waste arguing with insurance companies to get them to cover our wife’s ongoing chemotherapy even though nothing has fucking changed
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If by “this” you mean an autoimmune disease for which there is no cure, yup!
A) its not universal because plenty of people don’t have coverage.
B) many of our insurance companies and “healthcare providers” are for profit and traded on the stock market, so our premiums are going to shareholders, with just enough paying for actual treatment to keep all of us from going full Luigi
While I was living in Seattle it was: $3.3k/mo for rent, like $500 utilities, about $1k for food (I was feeding me and another person, we ate out maybe once every couple months, I did go a bit fancy with our cooking), various things like gym and other stuff to keep my sanity brought it all up to about $5.5k/mo. My health insurance was through my work and I paid about $1.2k and they paid about $2k but that was all handled before I got my paychecks.
So in Seattle at least the answer is make at least $100k/yr before tax, don’t have kids, don’t have a car, be in reasonably good health, have a job that pays for most your insurance premiums, and never have a medical emergency. Or live in a house with 6 other people and dumpster dive for food. Or just go massively into debt.
Credit cards and payday loans until you declare bankruptcy 6 times just like uncle
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Honestly the best thing skilled Americans could do is leave. Changing things would be better but honestly simply leaving in droves could already change things for the better ironically enough.
I spent years trying to change things. Protests, donating to younger people more capable of direct action than me, building community, and yes voting too because we have to use all our tools. It became too dangerous for my aging trans ass and I managed to find myself in a position to move to Sweden. I don’t know if I’ll ever stop feeling guilty about it but it’s so much better outside the US. I’m still giving what I can to my community back in the US but at this point it’s more like using scotch tape to fix a stab wound. You better believe though if the US comes for Greenland I’m going to do everything I can to help my new neighbors
Hey. Don’t feel bad about leaving. You’ve done what you could and then did what you needed to in order to keep yourself safe. If what you say is true you’ve done an order of magnitude more work towards a better world than the majority of people.
I think we need good people left in this country to have a chance to try and turn things around, but I’ll never be upset with someone who left for their own good. There’s enough of us that can’t leave, or won’t leave, that we’ll never become irrelevant here. The fight will go on until death do us part, for better or for worse.
Do it, and don’t feel bad about it. If the US comes for Greenland I’m on the side of Greenland. Same for Canada, same for Mexico, same for anyone else whose sovereign borders are being threatened. Know that no matter what happens you still have friends here on the inside.
Does your country have decent healthcare and need IT Admins?
60% of the country lives check-to-check, the rest are mostly in debt
I’d just give up, buy food with credit, and literally walk off to invade someone’s forest, cannibalize them, use their land to hunt.
After all, they crowded everyone out on purpose.
Who am I kidding, I’m a pussy even now.
To afford everything you just need to be disabled, then you get health care, food support, monthly income, and rent help. If the top 10% paid their taxes then everyone can get these benefits.
Can’t tell if sarcastic. Too many people legit think this way.
Being disabled means having to be scrutinized regularly by government authority, by filling out endless paper forms in an attempt to justify your disability to someone with a vested interest in not believing you. I helped my girlfriend fill out disability forms last year. It’s particularly cruel because she can only use her hands for brief bursts of time before needing to rest. Sometimes she sends me voice recordings instead of texts so she can respond to me, because her hands simply can’t type everything she wants to say. Yet she’s given page after page of questions about her abilities, the chores she’s capable of completing, the hobbies she has, and so on, all so someone who’s never met her (or worse, probably an AI) can poke holes in her story and deny her claims.
Don’t even get me started on the income limits.
Not really being sarcastic, I am on SSI and have been for 15+ years. Was denied twice, even with the State declaring that I am disabled. To get SSI you have to get a lawyer to file certain paperwork. Went to several doctors that the government wanted me to. Luckily I also had a psychiatrist and a therapist so my mental disorder was on record. Also had a county case manager who put I so much work to make sure that I went to the correct adult foster home and found the lawyer I needed. That isn’t even scratching the surface of the paperwork I have to go through every year just to keep my CADI funding.
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