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What about the other people who aren't successful - don't they deserve a safety net?
Don't you know - people only aren't successful because they're lazy or make bad choices!
Not because they're young and haven't had the time to grow their success or wealth, or get sick or have an accident, or are of below average intelligence (half of the country has to be...).
I made all the right choices and started adult life well ahead of my peers - then the brick wall of cancer hit and bam! I started singing a different tune about just needing to work hard. I might have thought differently if I got sick at 33 on the trajectory I was on rather than 23.
What about the other people who aren't successful - don't they deserve a safety net?
What's a safety net? An iPhone 7? Free Cable? 50" HDTV? Where do you draw the line?
I do believe everyone deserves a "safety net" but it should have a time limit: 6 months, 1 year. After the time limit you'll need to show you're making an effort to get employment. Is that so unreasonable?
Health care costs have always risen because they have to in a profit-based economy. Publicly held stocks have to report year over year revenue increases or no one will buy their stock. So one way or another, costs will go up in order for the health-related industries to report increased revenue earnings to their stockholders. That is why, even in a capitalist economy, medical care should not be profit based.
^^This. It's the problem in a nutshell. We put a $ sign on human lives. It's wrong - even evil do to this. Money should not mean more than a human life. But it does in this country - and in more ways than one.
Ryan's statement that some people will chose not to get insurance is like saying we don't need to provide people with food stamps because some people will chose not to eat. Kellyanne will remind us that there are several medical conditions in which people chose not to eat.
Don't you know - people only aren't successful because they're lazy or make bad choices!
Not because they're young and haven't had the time to grow their success or wealth, or get sick or have an accident, or are of below average intelligence (half of the country has to be...).
I made all the right choices and started adult life well ahead of my peers - then the brick wall of cancer hit and bam! I started singing a different tune about just needing to work hard. I might have thought differently if I got sick at 33 on the trajectory I was on rather than 23.
I hope you are doing better now.
I see a lot of arrogance on this board. People think nothing can happen to them. Illness and job loss can happen to anyone and devastate and bankrupt. I have worked hard but also consider myself extremely lucky to have always been healthy and employed. I try not to take any of it for granted.
I see a lot of arrogance on this board. People think nothing can happen to them. Illness and job loss can happen to anyone and devastate and bankrupt. I have worked hard but also consider myself extremely lucky to have always been healthy and employed. I try not to take any of it for granted.
Tell me about it. Empathy is sorely missing these days.
I read the bill myself. It's pretty much what he says. Tax cuts, throwing people off insurance.. etc. There's the "choice" the conservatives wanted.
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