Someone in one of my FB groups complained about how they couldn’t afford to retire because of healthcare costs and mused about moving to Canada, and I suggested we need to support Medicare for All, and another member (a wealthy acquaintance of mine) re...
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Someone in one of my FB groups complained about how they couldn’t afford to retire because of healthcare costs and mused about moving to Canada, and I suggested we need to support Medicare for All, and another member (a wealthy acquaintance of mine) replied:
“[Medicare for all] will mean healthcare for nobody. But sure let’s try another stupid idea and see what happens once you pass it.”
I started to reply but I realized just how goddamn stupid their reply was. Just utterly dumb and nonsensical. There is nothing to discuss, no argument to rebut, no philosophy to be had, because it’s just reactionary amygdala-juice word salad. I deleted my reply because there’s no hope of any rational conversation. It’s best to ignore these people.
How do people get into these states of confident wrong-ness?
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dataramareplied to Dave Rahardja (he/him) last edited by
@drahardja A few months ago I had an acute bile duct infection that put me in the hospital for a weekend. It turned out to be caused by a complication from gallstones - so after the infection cleared up, I got my gallbladder removed. Both the initial hospital stay, the surgery and the recovery set me back $0. If there'd been complications and they had to do open surgery (with much longer in-hospital recovery), it'd also cost me nothing.
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dataramareplied to datarama last edited by [email protected]
@drahardja ...an American friend of mine had the same procedure done, and she told me how worried she was about complications, because for her that *could* become terribly expensive. Her insurance paid for some of it, but not all. How on Earth is it OK for her to have to worry about that?
Socialized healthcare rules. Everybody should have full access to healthcare, full stop.