GREAT FOR YOU! SERIOUSLY!

‘Life is hard and not fair’? Yeah, that’s why people have insurance! You realize other industrialized nations don’t see people going bankrupt due to enormous medical debts, right? This isn’t rocket science. Eliminate the greed factor and bring down the cost of care and insurance.

Except we have budgeted like responsible adults to make sure we have enough in an emergency savings fund to cover out of pocket maximums. 

Lol so youre saying you have multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars just chilling in the bank? Assuming youre not full of shit and have any idea what medical treatment actually costs, you really think poor people can save up that kind of money? Lol stop trolling

Absolutely. This was an absurdly priviledged post. I’ve been very fortunate to have good health care available for my family. When ACA came along our plan move to high deductible and we grumbled a bit because that meant we pretty much didn’t ever get to use our benefits. We never maxed out the deductible and I…

iPhones are not the problem. smartphones are the only internet access some people have. Internet gives access to jobs, research, and yes entertainment. If you think poor people are gonna get healthcare by downgrading to a dumb phone, you crazy. Congratulations on being a responsible adult with investment whatevers and…

1. I don’t believe that you have sufficient cash and investments on hand to cover the total cost I’m talking about, which is a very common scenario pre-ACA, which is roughly equivalent to paying for a nice house in cash. You do realize that out of pocket maximums don’t fully limit what you can be charged out of…

The problem is that getting adequate healthcare in the US is not at all the same thing as saving up to buy a new car.

My bestie is adopted. There are blessings to it, but also really big challenges. It’s hard being an adopted kid, even when your home life is absolutely ideal (and where/when has that ever happened in the history of time?). Other close friends are trying to adopt right now, so I’m watching the whole thing play out from…

I...don’t understand Spicer here. Is the word “demonstrator” supposed to be bad? I see no negative connotation.

Once in a PP I stood behind a poor young man whose roommate’s ex girlfriend had purportedly slathered random objects in their shared apartment with gonorhea infected vaginal secretions. Apparently it was a bad break up. This poor dude had no insurance.

While as far as I’m concerned the sooner these shits die of tertiary syphilis the better, I don’t want their sexual partners similarly infected, so GO TO PP, DOUCHEBAGS.

I find it especially funny as my first trip to PP was to support my ex-bf when he needed to go in for HIV testing. Planned Parenthood: It’s for the menz, too! (Not that these jackasses would ever both to find that out.)

Yeah—that’s how I read it.

The funny thing is, she wasn’t being rude or snarky at all. She was just politely and matter-of-factly informing us that our information, as far as she knew, was irrelevant to her.

Ok but back to the important part - how many abortions did you sell her?

Right? I’ve been tested at a Planned Parenthood! Planned Parenthood helped me, a puny little man with weak manparts who is surely a liberal cuck! I’m sure these big strong men who just want to defend innocent little babies from the predation of circling abortion harpies could use some free STD testing from time to…

“Thanks, but I don’t need any abortions.”

things they apparently don’t need: access to healthcare, treatment for std’s, reproductive education, cancer screening, contraceptives, advocates and allies.

I used to volunteer a lot for Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles, and much of that was “community outreach” — going to communities that had a clinic and passing out information about the services it offered. The very first time I did one of those, I had what remains the most rewarding and simultaneously most…