As others have said, the greatest transfer of wealth in US history will not be from the Boomers to their children but from them to the US healthcare system. The US is designed to make people insolvent and to keep them poor once they're there.
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But I donated a little.
We shouldn't be here.
But remind me again who Canada would be so grateful to be the 51st state?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health-expenditure-by-country/
Healthcare should NEVER be tied to one's employer. That kind of leverage is ALWAYS abused.
Also I note here other countries like Japan do heavily rely on employer-provided insurance, but still manage to provide universal healthcare simply through well-designed policies that provide assistance when to do lose jobs for whatever reason.
The richest country on Earth. And worst of all, people there have convinced themselves that this is "freedom".
It is our shame. One of several.
Healthcare (like education) is an investment in the future, not a profit centre.
The Interstate Highway System
- Rural Electricity Grid
- The Hoover Dam
- Social Security
- Medicare
- Aviation Travel
- The United States military
- Interstate Commerce
- National Parks
No insurance companies, no denial of claims ,no bills no bankruptcy. 🍁🇨🇦
NY Dolls! This is so heartbreaking.
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That's the main reason the right wing media spent decades demonizing her.
I went to a dentist for an exam today. Dentist told me what needed to be done. Receptionist then told me what I could afford with my insurance and gave me a menu to pick which teeth I want to fix. Payment at the time of treatment, period.
4k I don't have.
They were like 'why haven't you been to the dentist in so long'.
Uh, 'cause I'm not wealthy and teeth are Super Luxury Platinum Bones.
The Tonkin Bay incident, Operation Northwoods, the Panama Papers, the cartoonishly evil NSA surveillance... And that's just a quick sampler of the ones that proved true. 🙃
So that's where a lot of the boomer's wealth will go.
It was sad to see the cost of dying in this country.
She’s very miserable at the nursing home where she’s getting hospice care.
End of life care dictated by cost is infuriating.
We just received a 10k bill from the nursing home that medicare was supposed to pay for.
10k to lay in a bed and mostly be ignored.
I vote for democrats and they deliver republican policy. And I’m the reason?
Sad.
You’ll never understand why they lost I guess.
Just keep handing elections to fascists for ever.
Having said that, we would have had universal health care by now if people had voted for Democrats for house and senate instead of believing the GOP in 2010.
Healthcare.
The ACA passed without a single republican vote.
MEME I HEARD
"If Musk was really concerned about fraud and abuse/corruption he would have hired a team of accountants. Instead he hired coders .. that tells us what he's doing
And Medicare coverage varies a lot and doesn’t cover everything.
Much of it from being in the first round of freinds & family shares of Facebook.
C'mon man.
We can't rely on Taylor Swift all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_my7pGkN_s
He can just imagine how much money the health care industry would make !
. . Founded in 1948 , Many have tried to f#@k with it (including Trump) but mostly right wing conservative politicians in the uk.
They f'd around and found out🙂
But hey, that's anti-American, we're a good god fearing country. 🤷♀️
Acts 4: 32; 34-35
Greed is the opposite of compassion.
That's clearly why He says:
While here in the US I am always afraid of going to the doctor and play the insurance company version of Russian roulette.
Rather than unite us around a common goal - ending the transfer of the few dollars left with the middle/working class to the rich - they unwittingly focused on causes that divided us.
We need to wake up and take our country back from the super rich.
You run healthcare like a business.
That's where you are sadly.
Pricing life out of reach & creating serfdom to pay off the price of living.
Once you put a price on life you also put a price on death.
Deaths, affordable option when ethics are woke.
When I was a kid, counties operated hospitals that provided long-term care. But they have been gradually getting out of that business.
Just like running a railroad spur so they can be delivered en masse.
When you realize that assisted suicide harms the bottom line, it all starts to make sense.
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Democrats forget that much of the electorate, even those opposing Maga, is also made up of independents & minor party voters, & we're often closer to revolting than centrist Dems!!
We still march when you don't. So maybe it's time to network?
https://youtu.be/Rkrw6zMXInQ?si=XL3OppDLfOMwtUfA
Sucks to be in the lower 90%.
(And agree 💯 on your US healthcare assessment.)
Everything is actually just theirs...
It didn't used to be that way. But Reagan got everyone convinced if we just gave the wealthy more and the cascade to kill everyone but the wealthy began
This should be coming out of the mouth of every fucking newscaster right before they start asking questions to a Republican
Similar in UK - Boomers homes will be bank-owned upon death as they are upside-down in their mortgages.
Grandfather saved like $1M. Almost all gone into EOL care for him and Gram.
The system is most definitely designed to destroy people.
People who contribute THIS much to human culture and our national culture in particular should not be having to hustle for donations to stay alive.
This is who we are, as a nation.
It's why I find it increasingly difficult to feel any pride in being American.
They are cheering while Musk & Trump rob us blind.
They think they’re only hurting people more marginalized than them, so they won’t oppose it until it’s too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQTGqqXHw4
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Was there a memo that walked back Obama a claims that I missed?
Our healthcare system is fucked beyond repair. So is Medicare & Medicaid. We need an entirely new system. Now.
https://youtu.be/GvmvMFXWzc8?si=nsX-g-hkoax0Z3LM
MeeMaw got sick? Well you're all homeless now and she goes to a medicaid black hole.
Here is a link for David:
https://www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohansenfund.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18
I saw him in a tiny club during the Buster Pointdexter days and what a great performer
His contributions to art aside, no one should have to beg for their life
You see I WOULD but unfortunately we're all in crippling medical debt.
(I get medicaid so I'm not, but I'm still poor and unemployed due to overpopulation and condension.)
None of us can afford to leave. Those that can, have no reason to.
Social safety nets, and support of the arts are integral to the wellbeing of all.