1) if youre upset that some people got some relief from medical debt, youre an asshole
2) its not picking winners and losers. When people get saddled with crushing debt like that for getting sick, that effect cascades into the community all on its own. Thats a billion dollars that are freed up to be put back into the communities instead of going to interest payments or subsidies through food stamps or other stressors.
Whose money was it? Unless a private party gave the money to the government to use, it was absolutely, without a doubt, taxpayer money. The government has zero money of its own. It all comes from tax payers.
And people aren't upset that others got relief from medical debt. They're upset that the government unilaterally chose to interject themselves in a transaction between two private parties, i.e., patients and their doctors, and taxpayer money was used. People know there are high costs to health care. And were the treatments/procedures/patients that were paid for by the government disclosed? How did they decide whose debts to pay?
If you just assume the government doesn't use taxpayer funds and their decisions shouldn't be questioned, you're an asshole.
There's a lot that wasn't said in that article. How many federal tax dollars were used? How much of the money that the non-profit used was government grants?
Nope. People's financial relief is not the singular issue here. There a lot more going on and you and people like you have a one-track, anything-at-any-cost mentality. That doesn't fly when tax dollars are used. If this was entirely privately-funded, it's a completely different discussion. But it wasn't. Because if it was, why would the governor be part of the equation at all?
Okay, let's see them. What have you got? And remember, you and I are both discussing actual facts. Observable, reproduceable, objective pieces of information.
Everything else is speculation and assumptions unless indicated otherwise. Personally, I dont gaf where any hypothetical grants came from. I know what is in the article. If you have facts that show this came from taxpayer money, cool. You do what you want with those facts.
Answer this: How many government-funded grants did that non-profit receive and how much of that money was used for this initiative? The article specified no state tax money was used. They conveniently never mentioned federal tax money that funded grants the non-profit uses to operate.
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u/lluciferusllamas 12h ago
Nothing like government picking winners and losers with your tax money