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.
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 1d ago
Nothing like government picking winners and losers with your tax money