This, COMPLETELY.
What, do Republicans think that the services performed in the ER are magically paid for by li’l baby Jesus? NO, MR. LABRADOR. They are funded by TAX DOLLARS.
Which is more expensive: dietary coaching and annual check-ups with a general practitioner, or a quadruple bypass?

It’s crazy. Everyone appreciates the work of artistic people in one form or another. Everyone consumes some for of entertainment that required at least some creative input, even if it’s just watching tv. They consume products that required a designer every day.

Yeah, I can’t even with that statement. One of the reasons health care costs were so high were emergency room visits that could have been prevented with basic primary care access. Those unpaid emergency room visits were, ultimately, shifted to people with insurance, hence high cost of care and high premiums. Like,…

“I was trying to explain that all hospitals are required by law to treat patients in need of emergency care regardless of their ability to pay and that the Republican plan does not change that,”

Shit, man, that is awful. I’m so sorry. Can I presume to make a suggestion: tell this story to as many people as you can, including your elected reps, before the final vote. People need to hear the vivid, personalized, heartbreaking stories of what the ACA meant for people and what this new monstrosity is trying to do.

These decsions and repeals by the republicans are the true “death panels” since they judged and deemed that the american public is not worth saving.

Exactly. It’s all about the frredomz. He could get medical help and just suffer with crushing debt for the rest of his life. No, he can get a better job to pay off the debt. Maybe go back to school for better skills...but no money because medical debts...so student loans!

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…

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.

This Labrador would be better at governance.

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

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.

That’s how “they” will save money on healthcare. Everybody is too scared to go to the doctor since there will be a record of pre-existing conditions. If you go to a doctor early to avoid consequences, you can’t afford insurance. So you don’t go for checkups for fear of being labeled.

In the eyes of these GOP nincompoops, that guy wasn’t denied health care, he just made a stupid decision not to bankrupt himself by seeing the doctor, and so therefore it was truly his fault.

It’s true. Everyone simply expires peacefully, at the natural and fitting time that was ordained to be the end of his or her life, and at a point when no medical intervention could do anything to stop or even delay it. Also, the cheque is in the mail; you get this, and I’ll get the next one; I’ll definitely call you;…

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.

Those are just details... what really matters is that the kid probably was rude to someone at some point in his life and was aggressively retreating away from the officer towards a group of nuns/puppies. Probably.

The police officer’s parents are already in the media trying to spin him as a “good father” and a “family man”, never mind that he’s divorced and has two children born within 12 days of each other by two different women.

Yeah this makes me all kinds of uncomfortable. Is she just going to live with being repulsed by touch for the rest of her life? What happens if she gets over it? To me it seems selfish as hell to say “my wife is going through something tough postpartum but MY dick isn’t getting wet & that’s the real problem.”

Exactly. I mean, shouldn’t the person with the near-debilitating illness be getting help and support for said illness? But instead we’re supposed to worry about Peter?