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As always with threads on this topic, where would all those Americans go? It's not that countries abroad are waiting for them with open arms
Check the world forum, there are lots of Americans asking for information on potential relocation targets abroad...
Despite its obvious flaws the US is still an interesting country as one can feel that people might turn things around once they are really tired of their mess. A feeling one does not necessarily get in my country, where people don't believe in the future, but prefer to accept the chronically troubled situation of their country as their fate instead.
When I brought up the progressive utopia of North Korea and the impossibility of its citizens to freely travel you implied that your fate is similar to a North Korean.
Believe me sir, it isn't.
No, I didn't imply that. I didn't say a word about North Korea.
Being married is a game changer when it comes to insurance. I won't be getting married for another 5 or 6 years at the earliest. The fact that as a single 22 year old I was being cited $600 a month at the cheapest means that as a 23 year old cancer survivor, I'd be looking at paying quite a bit more if at all. You might get coverage, but can you pay for it? My career is 10 years away from being able to afford that type of insurance premium.
Several times she was the subscriber. You can't afford your premiuns. Why is that someone else's problem?
Excuse me, but it's you conservatives that are always crying about how you're being overtaxed and how the country is too liberal, socialist, and bordering on communism. Nevermind the incessant crowing about how businesses are being over regulated and how libs are chipping away at your personal freedoms. Does the NRA gunnuttery ring a bell?
So if you don't like it, why don't YOU GUYS get the hell out of dodge?
Why would real Americans leave the best nation on Earth?
We aren't the ones complaining about free markets, property rights, sexual morality and Christian religious freedom.
Several times she was the subscriber. You can't afford your premiuns. Why is that someone else's problem?
So, I'm 23. I get told I shouldn't expect a good salary right out of college, because I have no experience. Fine, I accept that. But then when I can't afford essential things like health insurance premiums (which I luckily can because of my employer-based group coverage, but talking in hypothetical here since most of my friends in similar paygrades are not offered insurance as part of their compensation), I'm somehow a loser who does not deserve care?
How does this jive?
This is the WHOLE NATION'S problem because it's so pervasive. Luckily, those of us who get sick in our 20s are a comparatively small group of people - but it absolutely happens and all the "personal responsibility" in the world is not able to help when you get sick right out of college or trade school.
I'm glad that your wife was able to get coverage that you were able to afford, but that's not the story I know to be true for myself or for many of my friends in the young adult cancer / illness community.
It's not my job to fight the callousness of the "I got mine, so *********" mentality of my fellow Americans, which is why I plan to take my talents elsewhere when I reach that level in my education a few years from now.
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