The GOP Hates Americans (Health Insurance Exchanges)

[Johnny_L.A]

@TonySinclair

It literally makes my stomach hurt to read some of the posts from the right wingers in this thread. This is not a stupid game. People are dying from lack of health care. People are dying because uninsured medical costs are so high that they put off seeing a doctor until they are in such pain that their cancer or whatever has advanced beyond the curable stage.

A Doper Example

Thankfully, while serious, it doesn’t look fatal.

@Broomstick

I did get snappish with the nurse. She was getting scoldly about him re-using catheters and going on about how he needs to use a new one every time…

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“Medicare pays for a couple hundred catheters a month…” I pointed out we don’t have Medicare. That’s not our insurance. And we can NOT find a place that will accept our insurance for those catheters he needs. We don’t re-use them because we’re stupid, it’s because we really don’t have a choice.

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Which is just another example of our jack-up health care “system” that we can get covered for tens of thousands for an emergency hospital stay but when it comes to preventing it with something as simple as a sterile piece of plastic we’re kicked to the curb.