• starik@lemmy.zip
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    29 days ago

    Americans still have to work to pay for their healthcare. It will cost even more now.

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      28 days ago

      No health care insurance in America means you cannot pay for health care period. The majority of people with not enough money to pay for the rip off that is American health care insurance will certainly not be able to pay for actual American Healthcare

      What you are saying is akin to “the bank denied my loan, now I have to buy the house cash only”… that will never happen, there will be no house for this hypothetical example person

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        28 days ago

        A hospital in the US can’t just let you die because you don’t have insurance. So when somebody is in a dire situation and isn’t insured their debt will usually be sold for pennies on the dollar to a debt collector, who will then make their life hell in ways that aren’t always legal, and the difference is just absorbed by the hospital who will then raise prices on others to compensate. Thus healthcare will cost more especially if more people are removed from having insurance or other coverage. I believe this is what the person you were responding to was trying to point out.

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          28 days ago

          another whoosh…

          also, good time to point out again what a nightmare ofea “system” they have

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        28 days ago

        People will still get emergency care, even if they can’t afford it. They go bankrupt. They will forgo preventative treatment, but this is kicking the can down the road and leads to a net increase in medical costs in the long run.

        In any case, your original comment about people having more free time to protest because they don’t have to go to work to keep their insurance is nonsense. The ones getting kicked off their insurance are not the ones getting it through their employers. They are getting it through the ACA marketplace, i.e. purchasing it themselves. Even if they were losing work-subsidized health insurance, they would still have to work because other things people need cost money too. Things like food and (as you mentioned) housing.

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          28 days ago

          In any case, your original comment about people having more free time to protest because they don’t have to go to work to keep their insurance is nonsense.

          whoosh

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                28 days ago

                For there to be a whoosh, there needs to be a joke that was taken at face value. I got that you were trying to make a snarky comment about the people getting kicked off health insurance, but those people aren’t the ones who get their insurance through their employers, so your “joke” doesn’t land.