RE: Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
January 25, 2017 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2017 at 10:02 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 25, 2017 at 9:10 pm)Aegon Wrote: I found out today that I'm more or less a month away from Stage 5 CKD. I'll have to get dialysis treatments and file the paperwork to get on the transplant list. So, sorry if I don't approach this topic with pure logic; it's very personal to me.
You've got my sympathies, bud. Wish I had more to offer.
(January 25, 2017 at 9:36 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Which is doubly hilarious when people who object to universal healthcare try to use the argument that they don't want to pay for another person's healthcare. They are already paying for millions of people's healthcare via their insurance premiums.
... and taxes, for the ER visits you mentioned, in public hospitals. Tax money that is, by the way, spent at the least effective moment of a chronic illness.
