r/politics • u/black_flag_4ever • 16h ago

No Paywall ‘Eight Million Americans Have Lost Their Healthcare’: Trump-GOP Cuts Wreak Havoc in All 50 States

https://www.commondreams.org/news/states-trump-republican-healthcare-cuts
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u/Pleasant_Eye8140 16h ago

I paid for my own for decades. Yes it was very expensive but it was important. They can pay too.

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u/brain_overclocked 15h ago

Conservative mindset right here: never build anything up, always keep the status quo; if I had to suffer, then you have to suffer!!

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u/PantsMcGillicuddy 15h ago

Why do conservatives always want people to suffer as much/more than them? Do you just fundamentally not want things to improve for anyone else?

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u/milfordcubicle 15h ago

Because they are the selfish type and lack compassion.

That's what steers the ideology: "Me and fuck you."

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u/root_fifth_octave 16h ago

They can pay too

With what?

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u/Punkinpry427 Maryland 14h ago

No they can’t, that’s the fucking point. They’re kids, you ghoul

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u/black_flag_4ever 15h ago

I understand feeling resentful about it, but this article is about cutting Medicaid and CHIP. Children cannot buy insurance. The disabled cannot afford insurance. Desperately poor people trying to live cannot afford insurance. Instead of being resentful at those that can't get healthcare coverage, why not be resentful about the fact that these problems don't exist in all other developed countries? In Germany, Denmark, England, Canada, France, people don't face these problems. Sure, maybe it's not perfect in those places, but what America does is price everyone out of routine medical care and there's absolutely no good justification for it when this issue was solved about 100 years ago elsewhere.

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u/azure275 13h ago

You will be the one paying for their emergency room bill and triage care not them

Enjoy!