https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-uses-1m-w...40822.html

Good ol American health care system. At it again.

Yeah, apparently the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, didn't make care affordable.

(February 3, 2018 at 8:29 am)alpha male Wrote: Yeah, apparently the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, didn't make care affordable.

No but it did slow down the rate of cost increase. It was never the answer.  But keep in mind Republicans in Congress and Trump have been cutting funding for Obamacare.

It was basically a huge compromise similar to the Republican Individual Mandate Plan(s). It's not super left wing like Fox News and Republicans in Congress would like to tell you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapotheca...c376ed55fe

Alpha is there with his Perfect Solution Fallacy, I notice.

A-M loves the republicunt health care plan.  That is, "if you're rich enough to go to a doctor you can.  Otherwise, fucking die you poor piece of trash."  No one will ever confuse you with a humanitarian, A-M.

(February 3, 2018 at 9:46 am)Hammy Wrote: Alpha is there with his Perfect Solution Fallacy, I notice.

More like a final solution.  

(February 3, 2018 at 9:46 am)Hammy Wrote: Alpha is there with his Perfect Solution Fallacy, I notice.

Fixed that for you.

(February 3, 2018 at 12:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote: A-M loves the republicunt health care plan.  That is, "if you're rich enough to go to a doctor you can.  Otherwise, fucking die you poor piece of trash."  No one will ever confuse you with a humanitarian, A-M.

Rich? When I was 23 I got a job at a convenience store that gave me health insurance. If you work harder than other people, it's not that tough to have health insurance.

(February 2, 2018 at 10:57 pm)Aegon Wrote: https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-uses-1m-w...40822.html

Good ol American health care system. At it again.

All part of God’s plan...

There's not enough information in the article to draw much in the way of conclusions. Due to privacy concerns, we're not going to see a forensic audit of the lottery winner and I find myself really wondering how he prioritized his spending, over an above 'splurging' on a Lottery ticket, or perhaps 'relying' on the Lottery as his retirement package.

ACA supplements were available (still are today, BTW) in the relevant time frame had his income been insufficient. I also note ACA help is not effected by assets, so his carpentry tools, truck, shop(?) would not have effected the amount of help he could have received. It's even possible his share of an ACA premium in this last year would have been less than the penalty I'll assume he paid for not having coverage.

As for his stage 4 lung cancer, I'm wondering if he had mesothelioma, and there is a separate 'kitty' for that issue. And no shortage of adverts beseeching folks to join the class actions and settlements already existing.

Also astonishing his med team, with a literal millionaire sitting in their facility, wasn't able to maintain him longer lest he really had been ignoring some pretty severe symptoms for quite a while.