It occurred to me that people who don’t support universal healthcare have either never had it bad or have had it good for too long. And they lack the imagination to see what it might be like without it. I want to look around & know everyone is less stressed and feels more secure because healthcare as a right is covered for them. Empathy is needed, please.
I pay $200/mo for Obamacare, and that' the cheapest option for me lol
They never had to pay COBRA when they were in between jobs or just pray that they didn't get in an accident or get sick.
It fucking sucks. I didn't get as passionate about M4A as I am until I turned 26 right as I was between jobs when I do rely on daily medication and regular appointments.
The ACA is extremely flawed, but it's the only reason I'm not uninsured right now
The bad faith arguments that M4A somehow deprives workers and unions who "like their insurance" and fought for it are BS as well because guess what? You lose your job and you and your family are hosed.
There is no reason to tie employment with insurance. I'm union and would gladly get rid of our private insurance for M4A. We have no negotiating power with insurance anyway. It's take it or leave it.
There are some things you cannot understand fully without experiencing them, but those things are not as numerous as the things which, with a little effort and human kindness, one can fully understand and be sympathetic to. If you are an asshole, then the latter of those two statements becomes less and less likely.
Your ability to sympathize and understand the complexities of something like sexuality or lack of insurance or homelessness depends completely on having to experience it. At some point you lost to ability to understand them without doing so.
There are a lot more assholes now.
"I will fight for someone I don't know" is a powerful statement
The strangest part for me is how closely linked most of "those" life hardship things are. The intimate relationship between having no health care and homelessness is usually one medical disaster away for most people. A huge number of homeless people are LGBTQ kids that have been kicked out. SO many ways it can go wrong now for people.
my kid's grandpa doesn't support universal healthcare because he's an idiot... he's on medicaid and medicare at the same time and thinks universal healthcare will make doctors not do a good job because they won't have a big fat paycheck to compete for...
nimil: and hate to tell you...he’s absolutely right.
SpeakTheTruth: my parents died because they were unable to access good health care. both of them died before they got a chance to be grandparents. universal healthcare probably would have saved their lives. i watched my dad try to decide which of the many pills he had to take he could skip because they couldn't afford all the copays.
my son missed out on an amazing grandpa because my father died after his body failed from not being able to access affordable health care. instead he gets a narcissist grandpa that thinks his medicare and medicaid are fine but anyone else on it is shit (and my son is on medicaid to help pay for his mental health services) so you can sit the fuck down.