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I am not stoked our healthcare sucks so badly in the US, and how some people actually disagree because its socialism or some other well thought out reasoning.
I've become very open about telling folks, pretty much everyone, that I've had state health insurance for over ten years and was on food stamps for half of that time. People, even the most brainwashed, would never, ever think to call me a welfare person or whatever. I tell em about the specialized care I got for neck/back/muscular injuries (MRI, CT, PT, OT, etc). I tell em how I just got a Masters degree in state for almost no cost. I explain how food stamps/EBT works and throw in that billionaires don't pay taxes and that takes away a whole lot more $ from civic resources than even if every person received $184/month with which to buy food and support local businesses.
People have very little negative stuff to say afterwards and don't treat me any differently, some even stop spouting off long enough to talk about their experiences with insurance or poor health care outcomes.
This is where social media really fouls things up. Easy to point and yell from the keyboard, harder to process others experience.
Good on you for getting an education and taking advantage of the low cost healthcare we do have. I'm in my late forties and social media hasn't influenced my opinion, and I'm not yelling from a keyboard, I'm just fucking disappointed that this will most likely ever happen in my lifetime, or even ever.
Maybe, just maybe part of some of these countries actually make sure the people who are billionaires pay their fair share. Some of our fellow citizens would immediately say that socialism and that's the end of it. Some would also shit all over EBT/welfare because its people getting, "muh free shit".
Somehow though these countries all seem to flirt with this ideal of being able to receive medical care without going bankrupt, yet they still seem to proceed as usual.
Some of these people whom you say dodge paying taxes or seem to thrive without helping at all make their billions profiting from this fucking model we use for healthcare. Its almost like how our prisons are so great, rehabilitate prisoners, and don't have the record for the most incarcerated on the planet. It's shit, and these people are making obscene profits doing the bare minimum, and hey, profits are good, and this will never fucking end, so why try to do anything different?
I am in no way trying to be a dick about this, I have nothing against you or what you said. You even made me see a different way. I am really impressed you did all that despite this system crushing us. I would gnar you for setting this great representation of people who use EBT/etc., I just don't really post that much, yet here my dumb ass is posting.
Of course our gov sucks too, our infrastructure was good enough, and it seems like now its a little late for some simple changes that could have prevented these rusty shitbuckets that are failing left and right.
TLDR I'm not a smart person, but I had to clarify I'm not just parroting some shit some dumb motherfucker said on social media. I also just want a better healthcare system in this country, and I'm an idiot because it's not going to happen. Again, I mean no offense or take any, but I had to say my part too. Shit, agree to disagree?