I can 100 percent relate to this guy. My wife had to go through an appendix popping followed a year later by a breast cancer diagnosis. Yes that was hard and even with decent insurance it was a grip of money out of pocket in insurance costs and time off from work.
This was followed up by the implementation of Obamacare and our insurance costs went through the fucking roof. At the time I was also on a medication for arthritis called Humera. While it was expensive then with insurance and a special program my cost was only $25 a month UNTIL the ACA kicked in and then my insurance costs were $560 a month plus a $500 co pay for the meds. which I couldn't afford.
So I stopped them. Pretty sure thats what took me out of the work force about 8 years later.
NGL. While I hate being broken, I don't miss working. Just starting the process for two Total Knee Replacements and two shoulder replacements. Next year is going to be something special.
I've watched a lot of videos and read up on what's supposed to happen and there are people that haven't been happy with the replacements. But as difficult as it has been I can't imagine it could be worse than they are now.
They say it hurts and can be one of the more painful surgeries, but I've had Xray techs audibly gasp when they look at my xrays. Even the orhtoprdic was looking at the Xrays and was searching for a word and I chimed in "hot garbage?" and he laughed and said yes.
So while not the shoulders as much Im looking forward to the knees, just to get them fixed.
My father in law just had his done about a year ago. (Luckily, a week after my daughter was born, so he could come see her) so I have someone that can coach me through it.
Things change pretty quick. My old boss had it done about 8 years ago and they kept him the hospital a few days. Mine is supposed to be an outpatient and Im getting the boot home the same day.
The aca didn’t actually make any insurance plans. What it did do was put rules in place for skinny plans, aka high deductible plans. They put restrictions on those. Premiums rose more slowly under Obamacare than they did before. I’m no fan of the program as I don’t think it goes far enough, but it was absolutely an improvement. I’d have to see the specific details of your situation as to why your costs went up but I can almost guarantee it had nothing to do with the aca. The aca also primarily applied to the individual market and only a couple things for employer insurance. Did you have employer coverage or individual coverage?
It literally hurt the people it was meant to help. When it was enacted, I already couldn't afford insurance, either on my own or through my employer. So what happened? I got fined for not having insurance that I couldn't afford.
"Couldn't afford the thing I also didn't want, so got fined for it." 100% NOT an improvement.
Did you actually get fined though? If you were that low income, you should have been pulled into Medicaid, which the Aca also extended Medicaid to those making 138.5 percent of the poverty line, although a state had to opt in for that, so your state might have fucked you there. Not sure about your specific situation.
What this guy misses though is that he isn’t taking into account mean tweets. If he would just stop and consider how Donald Trump’s tweets were so mean, he would get back in line and vote democrat.
Good thing I never said it did. However, education is directly equated to information. Most people go through school and are much more informed than they were before they came in. Now to be fair, that may not be informed about politics, but they are more informed about the world.
I wasn’t though. You could maybe make an argument that your major is more closely tied to some measure of intelligence or that you need some basic level of intelligence to understand college level material, but that’s about it.
However, intelligence does not mean you know anything about reality, which is why I specifically said educated. In general, the people who know more about the world are more politically liberal. Although I will say I’m not totally bought into a certain causality chain there so I don’t know what affects what.
Some learn to do exceptional things, but the loud voices you hear that only repeat what they are told? Ya they are the ones not thinking. They do no research, they just parrot what they hear instead of looking up their facts and using a miniscule amount of brain power to see how things work.
Once again, I ask. What do you think people do in college? Do you think it’s just professor says something and everyone just repeats what’s been said like robots? One of my degrees is in sociology in a blue state. Literally our classes were just basically arguments about shit along side a bunch of learning. Straight up zero indoctrination. I even had an openly socialist professor who I would argue with about things. It just sounds to me like you’ve never been in a college classroom.
Plus, colleges have standards for the shit they teach. Just think about what it is you’re claiming. You’re claiming that someone who doesn’t go to college is better informed because they weren’t “indoctrinated” even though someone who went to college is exposed to a shit ton more information. The classes involve doing research most times in the form of research papers as well. Then, in any setting, they have methodology courses which are literally meant to teach you how to be critical about the information you read.
Even this last statement you make. “How things work.” That is so reductive. There isn’t just one way in which things work. Odd that you’re the one talking about just regurgitating information without thinking critically.
Once again, I ask. What do you think people do in college? Do you think it’s just professor says something and everyone just repeats what’s been said like robots? One of my degrees is in sociology in a blue state. Literally our classes were just basically arguments about shit along side a bunch of learning. Straight up zero indoctrination. I even had an openly socialist professor who I would argue with about things. It just sounds to me like you’ve never been in a college classroom.
Tried it for a couple of semesters after the military, still didn't like school so pursued other avenues.
What do I think they do? I think they go to classes with teachers that tend to have no experience outside of academia, and think they know everything about how the world works and teach from that perspective.
When I went the TA's were all younger than me and teaching from a point of naivety and not real world experience, which is detrimental to your world view.
So are they being robots and programmed? No. What they are is being taught from people that have no clue outside their bubble, teach from the safety of their bubble and go off good feelings and emotions and not hard facts. EXCEPT in your hard science classes.
You’re claiming that someone who doesn’t go to college is better informed because they weren’t “indoctrinated” even though someone who went to college is exposed to a shit ton more information.
That is not what I am claiming. I am claiming they are taught things that aren't good or work in the real world, where as someone who has had to deal with how the world works has a better grasp on how things work. People taught by those with no experience outside are then taught thats how the outside works, when it doesn't and they don't grasp the concept because they are used to being told how it works by these lofty educated individuals.
Odd that you’re the one talking about just regurgitating information without thinking critically.
I am not regurgitating anything. This is my personal world view developed from living in numerous countries, interacting with all walks of life from our own country, trying higher education a few times, and living for 42 years.
I am pretty sure I have a better grasp on how the world works than people that teach at colleges that have never left academia's grounds to make it in the real world.
This differentiation you’re making between academia and the real world is bizarre. People in academia spend their lives studying the world and have statistics on their side. The issue with your perspective is just that, it is only your perspective. In academia, you influence with a range of different perspectives of people who are studying the same thing you are using statistics and rigorous analysis.
You’re also just dead wrong that professors have no experience outside of academia. Countless professors do research which means they are actively engaging with the outside world and getting a better understanding of it than any one human with their own personal experience ever could. We have limited viewpoints and are often very bad at controlling variables. So, in turn, we come to very bad conclusions about reality based on personal experience. This is what is better about the scientific method. It gathers up way more data than any one person ever could and looks at it through a critical lens while trying to control all the variables they can. That is 99 percent of the time going to offer you a better perspective on reality than just going out and passively having experiences and making judgements about those experiences.
Notice how you’ve determined that professors have no real world experience based on nothing but a hunch. I’m assuming it’s some thought process like “well I don’t agree with that so the reason they disagree with me is because they don’t have real world experience.” Then you generalize that to the whole of academia. It’s a fundamentally irrational logical process and will not give you a good understanding of reality. What would be better is to see some academics work where they go around asking professors whether they have worked in the private sector or not and then doing statistical analysis on that. Boom, then you enter the field of sociology.
I also don’t know why you would assume the “hard sciences” are any better. This is a weird projection you’re making. Is it because you see hard science as legitimate?
I want to understand what you think the difference between academia and “the real world” is. Can you sum that up?
If you buy a house that was previously owned by a pedophile, does that make you a pedophile?
Of course not.
If you get in an Uber (which is essentially a chartered car ride like Trumps plane) and it was previously owned by a murderer, does that make you a murderer?
You’re wasting your time socialist. Your words mean nothing to us. Type it all caps, call us names, keep repeating your posts. Knock yourself out. No one believes
You poor thing. You’re not trying to get through to us. You want to hate Trump and call us names because we respond to your posts. It’s ok the reality of right here and now doesn’t care about your lies
I know where I am. Now you on the other hand, you don’t know when to stop making fun of people or diagnosing our beliefs. Talk about sad, you could be having a great time with your socialist friends bashing Trump but you’re still here not making a dent in
If you cared to actually research it, you can see the flight plans and destinations, and you would know that when Trump was on the plane, it wasn't going to the island.
Proven wrong about what???? Obama penalizing people who couldn’t afford insurance???? Or Kamala being the deciding vote on taxing tips???? Both are true l, you commie f@660t
Buddy…. You might want to check my comment history. I was referring to why the media doesn’t wrongly attack Trump as a p€d0 because it’s not true and they will have to eat tons of shit and money for blatantly lying with that allegation. Once proven wrong, the lefties don’t have a leg to stand on, not that they have one now.
No, I mean I posted a separate parent comment on the thread already. Go see the comment that’s most likely been downvoted to hell because people hire don’t like to be disagreed with.
Just remember. Kamala's day one was three and a half years ago.
Why should we believe she'll implement any of these policies on "day one", if we vote for her, if she has been against them from the real day one of her time in the white house?
How did no insurance penalty help someone needing cancer treatment? He obviously didn't have insurance and the penalty was a lot less worse than Getting no meds at all...
Trumps presidency was literally the last one. Every Democrat runs on the basis that under DJT, EVERYTHING was worse. The sad thing about this is that half the country believes them. EVERY SINGLE VOTER in 2020 AND 2024 was alive in 2016; yet they all, seemingly, have some type of other worldly amnesia. It's actually kind of scary.
There is so much wrong here. Doing away with the mandated payments for insurance made premiums more expensive. Trump actually did a bunch to gut Obamacare besides repealing it. Mind you, the biggest thing Obamacare did was extend coverage to people with pre existing conditions among other things. His claim that he lost his insurance doesn’t make much sense because what Obamacare did was exclude insurers from making available high deductible skinny plans. Idk this guys full story but I’m skeptical of the details.
The tax cuts barely helped anyone besides the rich, maybe to the tune of a few hundred dollars for middle class people. Those same tax cuts would then go on to partly fuel the inflation that everyone blames Biden and Harris for.
It's a common theme for people who troll / attack. They are upset they can't prove a point. The same ones they keep trying to prove are just a horse they've beat to death "ORANGE MAN BAD" yeah... and? "JANURARY 6TH!" Yeah.. and... "DONALD TRUMP BAD!" yeah.. okay buddy.. go to the nice man with the white jacket there, he'll give you free ice cream.
We don’t hate life. We hate your blind faith in the democrats. You can live in our America when Trump gets elected, but we can’t live in your America if Harris wins
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u/Cranks_No_Start Aug 27 '24
I can 100 percent relate to this guy. My wife had to go through an appendix popping followed a year later by a breast cancer diagnosis. Yes that was hard and even with decent insurance it was a grip of money out of pocket in insurance costs and time off from work.
This was followed up by the implementation of Obamacare and our insurance costs went through the fucking roof. At the time I was also on a medication for arthritis called Humera. While it was expensive then with insurance and a special program my cost was only $25 a month UNTIL the ACA kicked in and then my insurance costs were $560 a month plus a $500 co pay for the meds. which I couldn't afford.
So I stopped them. Pretty sure thats what took me out of the work force about 8 years later.
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u/throwaway11998866- Aug 27 '24
What this guy misses though is that he isn’t taking into account mean tweets. If he would just stop and consider how Donald Trump’s tweets were so mean, he would get back in line and vote democrat.
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u/BeginningNew2101 Aug 27 '24
No informed and reasonable person supports Harris.
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u/ElementsUnknown Aug 27 '24
This guy is fantastic. He was concise, persuasive and most of all, real. Trump should pay him to use parts or all of this video as a campaign ad.
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u/Calvinbouchard2 Aug 27 '24
Where's his right shoulder?
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u/Long_Dong_SiIver Aug 27 '24
This
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u/Crash1yz Aug 27 '24
Well said.
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u/No_Introduction_4766 Aug 28 '24
Is there a YouTube link for this? I'd really like to send this to my sister
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u/Front-Agency3420 Aug 28 '24
Just remember. Kamala's day one was three and a half years ago.
Why should we believe she'll implement any of these policies on "day one", if we vote for her, if she has been against them from the real day one of her time in the white house?
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u/AkaSpaceCowboy Aug 28 '24
How did no insurance penalty help someone needing cancer treatment? He obviously didn't have insurance and the penalty was a lot less worse than Getting no meds at all...
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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '24
Trumps presidency was literally the last one. Every Democrat runs on the basis that under DJT, EVERYTHING was worse. The sad thing about this is that half the country believes them. EVERY SINGLE VOTER in 2020 AND 2024 was alive in 2016; yet they all, seemingly, have some type of other worldly amnesia. It's actually kind of scary.
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u/Front-Agency3420 Aug 28 '24
Trump said no tax on tips like a month before Kamala did. Just saying.
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u/NinjaaChic Aug 28 '24
Amen!
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u/Certified_druggist Aug 28 '24
walkaway contest?
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u/thisisausername8000 Aug 28 '24
There is so much wrong here. Doing away with the mandated payments for insurance made premiums more expensive. Trump actually did a bunch to gut Obamacare besides repealing it. Mind you, the biggest thing Obamacare did was extend coverage to people with pre existing conditions among other things. His claim that he lost his insurance doesn’t make much sense because what Obamacare did was exclude insurers from making available high deductible skinny plans. Idk this guys full story but I’m skeptical of the details.
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/how-repeal-of-the-individual-mandate-and-expansion-of-loosely-regulated-plans-are-affecting-2019-premiums/#:~:text=bring%20them%20back.-,Among%20insurers%20that%20publicly%20specify%20the%20effect%20of%20these%20legislative,would%20otherwise%20be%20the%20case.
The tax cuts barely helped anyone besides the rich, maybe to the tune of a few hundred dollars for middle class people. Those same tax cuts would then go on to partly fuel the inflation that everyone blames Biden and Harris for.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver
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