It just kills me. Preventative care isn’t just for things that can sort of wait a hot sec until you can save up to get checked, like getting a pap smear or getting your cholesterol checked. It is also things like sepsis, where you get a random infection and if it goes untreated too long, you get so sick nothing can…

What a waste. I’m sorry for your loss.

People shouldn’t have to take out a calculator to decide if they can go to the doctor or not. Goddamn the US is backwards sometimes.

Jesus Christ. What a horrific story. I am so sorry that you & your family had to go through that. Death sucks already, but no one. No one. Should ever be in that situation.

You’re right, he didn’t ignore it so much as not realize how serious it was until it was too late. If he had had insurance, he could have gone to his GP when he started to feel shitty instead of just trying to tough it out.

Not sure what point you’re trying to make

Malignant incompetence! I know I’m doing the job poorly, and I intend to do worse every time you criticize me!

It’s both. All of them. Save the frustrating people from themselves. And also everyone else from them.

We could try bitching repeatedly about how anything less than a 100% progressive is worse than a republican.

Raul is a tea party douche. There’s a big difference between north Idaho and the rest of the state, they’re even in different time zones. However the 2 districts are split east and west so Raul has the entire pan handle and down to the southern border.

The GOP’s idea of “freedom” always ultimately involves indebtedness.

It was truly horrible. I don’t wish that kind of experience on anyone, including these asshats who don’t give a shit about my parents...or your parents...or anyone else in the whole goddamn world.

I think you’re right Jinni. At this point it isn’t even willfull ignorance; it’s MILITANT IGNORANCE.

Good God, that is...awful. I’m so sorry for your loss, and that our country’s policies made it so. Health care is a basic goddamn human right.

Before ACA, my dad had lung cancer. He was convinced he was going to die so he decided not to treat and leave my mom in horrible debt. He died in the middle of the night after not being able to move off the couch for three weeks. No pain meds. No hospital stay. Nothing but my mom sleeping on the other couch watching…

Is it ignorance, at this point, or is it a refusal to come to terms with reality, and the true motivations of their erstwhile candidate?

but how do we protect the more impressionable among us from the mass gaslighting?

I personally know about a guy who didn’t have insurance because my stupid state didn’t expand Medicaid. He ignored the signs of being pretty sick because his only option was the ER and he’d already been there a lot recently and couldn’t afford it.

As GOP reps are called on to defend their votes (especially after the CBO scores the bill), I’ll bet this is not even close to the worst we hear from them. They fucked up because they needed a “win”, and now they’re going to flail about trying to explain it.

There’s no getting re elected after this.