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

[LadyForCamus]

Yes, I’m aware of the concept of controlling variables when attempting to identity true cause and effect in research.  You’re actually underlining my point by acknowledging that there are, ofc, numerous and complexly interconnected variables effecting any given person’s financial and social status.  Hypothetically controlling for every other factor in order to falsely inflate the impact of a single chosen one, wouldn’t be an accurate picture of reality, now would it?  Then again, no narrative that the far right peddles ever is.

Feel free to work other factors in.

I don’t need to work them in, because they just exist in reality on their own, whether you like it or not.  You took this same fallacious approach in the thread about minorities and crime/poverty.  If your position on a socioeconomic problem requires that you ignore or dismiss the myriad of complex and interconnected variables that fuel that particular problem, then you’ve arrived at your conclusion using faulty logic. You are refusing to see that it’s more complicated than you want it to be, so that you can continue on with this idiotic finger-pointing.

One important point I made which you glossed over, (and to ShellB’s point which you also hand-waved away), is that at least here, even Silver plans have deductibles upwards of 5-7k/year for a single individual, with literally everything being subject to the deductible, including prescriptions.  Deductibles for families are in the 12-14k/year range. So, even if the premium is reasonable, it’s certainly not affordable coverage.  It’s not coverage at all.

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Alpha’s reasoning is a lot like Sam Kinison’s, now that I think about it. Too bad they couldn’t have collaborated; they’d have all the world’s problems solved by now.

Kinison on world hunger:

“You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don't send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, ‘You know, we've been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn't BE world hunger if you people would just live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS HERE. NOTHING IS EVER GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND! We have deserts in America, we just don't live in them, assholes!"