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

[John V]

Firstly, if you're going to employ hyperbole, you can't be surprised when people take you at your word.

With the word "everything," I can be surprised, as it's obvious hyperbole.

Thirdly, there being a substantial amount of side discussion on work and wealth doesn't negate what I said.

It absolutely negates what you said.

(Whether "absolutely" is intended as hyperbole is left as an exercise for the reader.)

I must have missed where you said it, cocksucker. You certainly didn't say other factors being equal in the post I quoted. So, you're essentially saying that you agree with everyone here, then? Assuming you're the exact same person working the exact same job in the exact same environment with the exact same family dynamic, etc. ad infinitum, you will make more money if you work more hours. Well, no shit, Sherlock. However, hard work will make very little difference in the availability of cancer treatment between person A who is just lazy and barely works and person B who isn't lazy but works as a laborer for very little pay and shitty insurance.

Around here, anyone but a teenager can get ten bucks an hour (and good teens can as well). Working 40 hours a week that's $20,800 per year. The subsidized cost of an ACA silver plan is 8.05% of that, or $1,674. Or, in terms of hours, 3.2 hours per week going to health insurance.

So why does he have shitty insurance?