RE: Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies
February 5, 2018 at 9:46 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2018 at 9:55 pm by Joods.)
(February 5, 2018 at 7:26 am)alpha male Wrote:
(February 5, 2018 at 12:26 am)Joods Wrote: bold mine.
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.
That's an indictment of divorce or out-of-wedlock children, not health costs.
Read the parts in bold. Divorce had nothing to do with it. Neither did having kids outside of the marriage, which he didn't. He would have had to pay out even more costs if the kids were on his insurance. Honestly - don't make the argument that healthcare is affordable when clearly, you don't know every situation. You seem very ignorant to the fact that there are thousands of families who are struggling to make ends meet and they have to decide whether to pay their bills or deal with medical costs.
(February 5, 2018 at 7:41 am)alpha male Wrote:(February 5, 2018 at 6:48 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Count down to AM telling you it’s all your fault; you shouldn’t have had kids if you couldn’t afford it, in 3...2...1...
That seems like a more reasonable approach than having them anyway and expecting the rest of society to pay for them.
Know what? This is a road you don't want to go down because it won't end very well and might result in the thread being closed.
My kids mean the world to me and that includes the ones that another person left behind. I willingly stepped up to that plate so don't you dare assume that society is paying for any of my kids. You can rightly fuck off with that fucked up statement.
(February 5, 2018 at 10:04 am)alpha male Wrote:(February 5, 2018 at 9:36 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: I’m sorry; did Joods say that “the rest of society” is paying for her kids? No.
Money is fungible. When she argues for publicly supported health care and ties that to child support payments, yes, she effectively is saying that the public should pay for her kids.
Or, she introduced a red herring as an emotional ploy.
Take your pick.
Clearly you don't know how to fucking read.
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
