We are so similar! I love it. For me, it was on a Sunday night. I was doing my normal “watch 60 Minutes then clean and get ready for work the next day” routine and I realized that my heart was racing and my hands were shaking. That’s very unusual for me, to have a physical manifestation of stress like that. A while…

I just read your other posts and they resonate with me so much. Every time I achieved, I said the same damn thing: “This is when I’m supposed to be happy, right? Why am I not!?” I was consistently advancing in my career, but it was never enough.

I was just in the hospital for a lung infection and the whole process has made me reevaluate some things in my life. I’ve never been in the hospital overnight before, and the worst illness I had up until now was the flu. I hope to never take my health and fully functional body for granted again.  

First, even by US standards, Joe Walsh is a heartless piece of crap.

Unfortunately for Mr. Walsh, he chose to make that comment on Twitter. He got destroyed.

Yes! , I pointed this out to anyone who says it. Also, that you can “lose your doctor” at any time — because if it’s out of the network, or they leave the network, oh well! No more of that doctor for you! And how you don’t actually have medical choice — because it’s what the insurance company is willing to cover and…

I always reply...we have death panels brought to you by the insurance companies.

First off, it seems people like him don’t seem to understand the concept of insurance itself. When you are buying insurance, you are essentially paying for other people’s healthcare when they get sick.

As an American who now lives in New Zealand, I cannot begin to explain to you how perplexing it is talking to my own family, who believe that single-payer UHC means “death panels” and “lack of choice” and “poor quality medical care.”

I am concerned with all of this, but what I am most concerned with (and simply baffled by) is the seemingly fundamental misunderstanding conservatives have regarding the concept of insurance. Insurance is when a group of people pools their collective resources (some of them, in this cause) so that when a member of…

Has your relative been to an ER recently? Most places you would have to wait and insurance doesn’t classify a broken bone as an emergency.

I do not understand how Americans (esp those who are not wealthy and who themselves have had health issues) do not get that this is the way healthcare should be.

And because of the myth that they get all the benefits of social services, there’s a lot of white Americans who want to see all those services stripped because they think that their tax dollars are going straight to subsidizing the lazy black/brown freeloaders.

Mix in a failure to properly fund education and you end up with voter who believe cutting taxes on the rich will result in more money for themselves.

I guess that guy doesn’t have car insurance because it literally works the same way.

Haha our last government was obsessed with 1812 because it’s like the only cool war we had or something. LAME

I don’t live in the US, so can someone explain to me where this mentality comes from?

Well, I mean, I was kidding because I studied history in college. But sort of? I mean, I think we generally like to leave Canada out. You didn’t really have anything to do with the War of 1812, right? ;)

Oh man, there’s so much here. First you need to know that the house Bill that passed was a cynical ploy to get a mark in the win column. The bill is almost the same as the bill that failed 6 weeks ago. Republican leadership pushed it through to neutralize the Freedom Caucus. The Senate isn’t going to touch the bill…

The answer to your question is really, really complicated, and taps into an entire historiography of debate between scholars about why socialism never was able to take root here. The bootstraps mythos, the greed and simultaneous fear that someone will come and take what is yours any minute—they are deeply rooted in…