• 5in1k
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    3 months ago

    As a 40 year old voter I can say things have changed. Gay people can get married. They couldn’t when I was younger. I was about to lose my healthcare at work during Bush but it hasn’t been a concern since.

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          3 months ago

          clinton falls into that category.

          biden is worse: he voted against gay marriage and advocated against gays in federal service for almost 50 years and then pretended that he did none of that and gave token support when he needed the votes.

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        losing healthcare is not a concern

        I have to guess they had a pre-existing condition or were self employed or something under bush, and don’t consider “you could get fired or go into huge medical debt at any moment” a concern (they should)

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          3 months ago

          Yeah it’s a concern but my company saying “ insurance is going to make us drop some of you if you can’t pass a physical “ was really a meeting we had. So the possibility was way higher for sure.

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            3 months ago

            The things is, Dems could have given us a single payer system but they specifically chose not to. They could have completely removed the risk of losing healthcare for everyone but they chose not to.

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              i wish people could see that democrats always rely on the “bad guy” excuse each time to kill a mildly progressive bill:

              • build back better blocked by manchin and sinema
              • immigration reform blocked by one random parliamentarian
              • single payer healthcare blocked by lieberman.
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      Gay people getting married was pushed through by an unelected body that is appointed, and if the civility libs are to be believed, apolitical (lmao)

      The majority of people in the US don’t have healthcare or are undercovered or are spending a huge portion of their income on it. The US has the worst healthcare system in the developed world, brought to you by the wonders of voooooting.

      Voting he also brought us such wonderful things as endless wars and constant genocide. Very cool! Glad you can turn your brain off and ignore your elected representatives doing those things in your name but I cannot

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      3 months ago

      I was about to lose my healthcare at work during Bush but it hasn’t been a concern since.

      so what, you think things are good now?

      If I want health insurance it’s going to be like 1/5th of my fucking pay. I would qualify for subsidies under the ACA, but guess what? my workplace offering insurance means I don’t qualify. Even though I have to fucking pay for that insurance

      real good system we VOTED for, love me some VOTE

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      3 months ago

      I used to think the ACA was pretty good until I started needing to use my ACA health insurance.

      Now I want to burn down every insurance corporation and I fucking hate Obama.

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        No. I’m doing decent. I’m pretty good at saving money so I have a pretty decent sized emergency fund. Plus the company I subcontract to would hire me if the OG company gets taken out somehow. Which it’s not.