
@hittitezombie @annamal @gregpak
Since #brexit, you guys are really struggling to just go by.
Here in #Spain, some people want to go private. But they don't seem to get that health is not a business.
I’m gonna die
Our future here in France looks a lot like your present time.
Maybe you had a better time if some real welfare was set up in the USA. For the better of every one.
Here thousands are fighting to save our welfare.
@gregpak Now THAT is a sign of the #BadEconomy and that #ThisIsAmerica.
That is a good observation.
There is one subset of the voters in the US that are pretty hot on the idea of using GoFundMe as our primary funding method for healthcare costs.
So yeah, keep your Twitter Account if you think you can shame other Americans into preventing you from sinking into bankruptcy from massive medical bills.
@gregpak
I feel you there.
I thought I was going to have to fight my private insurance over an ER visit, (just because the ER doctor was shit and thought I was trying to get pills doesn't mean I wasn't in extreme pain. Turns out it was my MS flaring,) I got a "you might owe" for $10,000USD. I called the hospital's financial aid number, (they're a public hospital that all the private hospital sends the poor people to. I'll never go to another private hospital if I can help it. This story is bad, but I had worse experience at the private one,) and they're like, "Uhh, there is no bill. I think your Medicaid picked it up." Turns out that I still have supplemental Medicaid. I thought I lost that when I got a better job. Saved my ass.
tl;dr Medicaid for All.
But yeah, trying to build yourself up is fine in my book too.
Also true for trans people.
Maybe a message that the state is coming for your kids is the only way to get help. Looking at the US but I'm sure the UK will be along any minute.
It's so relentlessly grim right now.