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False, they have 78K without health insurance. I went without health insurance for 4 years. Still went to the doctor when I got sick. Stop lying.
If you had anything serious during that time, that stint would've cost you a pretty penny. Someone who can't afford insurance is unlikely to be able to afford $300,000 hospital bills for a month's stay.
If you had anything serious during that time, that stint would've cost you a pretty penny. Someone who can't afford insurance is unlikely to be able to afford $300,000 hospital bills for a month's stay.
You simply declare bankruptcy. Keep all your assets in 401Ks or IRA's and/or your home and bankruptcy is pretty painless.
Ronald Reagan guaranteed every American healthcare in 1986. Every American has access to healthcare.
Where does anyone say that "poor people don't need health insurance because they will die anyway?" The word "poor" does not even appear in the article.
You are a good example of what we are up against, ignorance. People making assumptions, recharacterizing what a person said, and twisting, distorting, rewording, and inserting their own bias, then starting threads and demonizing the person for what they did not say.
Who is Medicaid for? The well off? Whay I wrote is the implication of Others statement. I didn't include quotes in the statement.
Otter is hoping that enough poor die due to him playing the waiting game on expanding Medicaid so that eventually he doesn't have to care about it all.
You can and you do thus feeding your own sick twisted view of reality.
Love, an Idaho resident
that explains a lot. are you equally as "informed" as your Governor?
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Originally Posted by Northeastah
well he did say this: “I see plenty of people that die every day in hospitals and they have insurance,” Otter said. “And they’re in the hospital. But they still die.”
so your governor, in his infinite wisdom extrapolates that no one needs insurance because we're all going to die some day.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln
No one can be refused ER care, not even an illegal that just crawled across the border.
Yes, by the time I was brought into the ER, I had a full-blown chronic condition.
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