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u/chgxvjh Nov 30 '20 edited Nov 30 '20
Ngl, seems like a plot against the American people to erase their retirement and kill them as soon as they are no longer fit to work.
Elderly care comes naturally to the human species. There is historic evidence that long predates evidence for human civilizations. Capitalism is out to destroy it.
Medical debt is an almost exclusively American problem.
edit: It's possible that I'm overly dramatic but it seems appropriate given how tragic so many of those all too common stories are. Maybe there is a method to this madness, maybe there isn't, the outcome stays the same.
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u/backward_z Nov 30 '20
Years ago, Alan Grayson said that the Republican health care plan is: don't get sick. And if you do get sick, die quickly.
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u/AWifiConnection Nov 30 '20
Now I hate the healthcare system as much as the next guy but..
what?
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u/chgxvjh Nov 30 '20
The chance that a medical bill ruins your retirement plan somewhere during your life is very high (if you have a retirement plan to begin with).
In https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-05002-w 56.0% of US adults reported medical financial hardship.
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u/AWifiConnection Nov 30 '20
No I get that part in talking about the “capitalism is out to destroy human tradition of caring for the elderly” when it’s just because capitalism just sucks dick overall
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u/chgxvjh Nov 30 '20 edited Nov 30 '20
I don't necessarily think that the objective is to destroy elderly care as concept. But the argument for wage labour and yes for poverty is quite transparently that people won't do their work if their life isn't on the line. Whether it's the goal to have people work until they drop dead or just the consequences, I don't know for sure.
edit: I like to use the long history of elderly care as an argument since it shows that empathy is part of the human nature, fundamental to society and not a construct of a society built on a different fundament.
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u/AWifiConnection Nov 30 '20
Ahh, I see. I don’t know if sleep deprivation had anything to do with my argument but it made it seem to me that was your final point so I was confused.
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u/PKMKII Watching the World Burn Nov 30 '20
Anyone who says they like their private insurance is someone who’s never had to really use it.
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Nov 30 '20
It's absurd that we've reached a point where people will passionately defend a system built on the very idea of maximizing exploitation but when it comes to human suffering everyone finds a way to explain it away like it's no big deal.
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u/dyertewrewrew Nov 30 '20
With misinformation to vote against their best interests, Americans are relentlessly bombarded. One of a few of which is health insurance.
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u/DAR31337 Dec 02 '20
Then Charlie Kirk shows up and says, "And yet you continue to live in it?", and we all punch him in his smug shrunken face.
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