Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies

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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.

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I'm gonna call bs on this. In 2016 my other half had to pay $42 a WEEK for health care just for himself. In addition to that, he was paying nearly a grand a month in child support. During weeks where he got a straight 40 hours per week, he was lucky if he got to see $350 a week out of his pay check.

In 2017, we got equal custody of the kids but he still wasn't allowed to either child on his tax returns. He also was still paying child support to the tun of $400 a week. AND he was still paying $42 a week for health insurance for himself. The kids have Chip. Do you know how much it costs to raise two teenage boys when you have then half the time and you still have to pay their mother child support which she either spends on weed, booze or CAM cards? Oh in addition to that, she was also taking the oldest son's SSI money and spending it on herself as well. 

We barely got by. We still barely get by, but we now have the kids every week and she gets them two weekends a month. She also has to pay child support, but it isn't nearly the same amount as what my other half had to pay when she had the kids the majority of the time. 

Try having a $600 a month grocery bill, three teenagers, two of which are involved in sports and ALL of them are growing and constantly need things. My other half can't even get to the doctors because he has expensive co-pays that must be paid at the time of the appointment. We can't afford that. He also has to pay a lot of OOP costs on his medications. 

My other half busts his ass at work and I can tell you that unless he gets overtime, his pay barely covers all of our expenses. I work, but it isn't enough. Our budget is so tight it squeaks. Thankfully we are finally getting a second car so he can venture out of the local area and try to find a better paying job. But don't you ever say that everyone can afford health insurance if they work hard because you are full of shit. 

There are hundreds of thousands of families that fall under the "working poor" category. We are such a family. Five people and we struggle. Things will eventually get better, but we have kids in 8th, 9th and 10th grades. All of them plan on going to college. All of them have needs and wants. We do what we can that falls within our means, but we also have no extra money to put away towards retirement at the moment. I am 46 and he is 43. At this rate, he's going to be working in to his mid 70's, when he should be enjoying his retirement.