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Oh dear god, You mean I'd finally have coverage, like an actual first world nation, to get my hereditary issues looked at, and treated?
DEAR GOD, THE INHUMANITY OF IT ALL.
She's going to give you the bad health care. The kind that the foreigners and the blah people get. You're not going to receive the special elite luxury care. You're going to get the same care as everyone else.
It was always a war cry for the elites. “You won’t be able to buy superior healthcare anymore. You’ll have to wait like the rest of the plebs”.
We already have ridiculous wait times. I got told by my doctor that I couldn’t reschedule my appointment because it was booked out 2 months. I had to reschedule because the office was closed for a week due to a fucking Hurricane.
And lets not even start about the state of seeing either specialists or especially mental healthcare.
Brain is acting funny and flooding you with feel-bad chemicals every day and it's impacting your life to the degree that some days you don't even want to live in a constant state of despair for no reason? "Sorry, that will be three months to see a psychiatrist, try thinking positive and taking walks!"
You mean like medicare/medicaid?
I know people on both, they get fantastic healthcare.
Its a lot better than the big bowl of fuckall nothing I got now.
The conservative theory is that Medicaid is shit and will kill your mum.
Medicare is gold, but it only works if we ration it for Boomers exclusively.
If you "steal" private health insurance to pay for Medicaid, you're basically murdering people. If you open the doors to Medicare, you'll use up all the good medicine and "swamp the boat" as it were, ruining it for everyone currently on the plan.
Obviously, you don't need health care. You just need better bootstraps and a stronger pull.