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

[Amarok]

Yeah, if they can't be bothered to sign up for free Medicare, which is available in my state, I'd say they're lazy. Wouldn't you? Or do you expect the government to pay people to walk the streets searching for people to sign up? I mean WTF?

So..people who qualify for government sponsored healthcare still have "some responsibility"...yes?

So far his definition and practical application of the term responsibility has been mercenary.

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You can't discuss an issue at a socioeconomic level if you treat every person as unique.


Average deductible for an individual silver plan in 2017 was $3,500. Max out-of pocket costs were $6,500. So, if this guy needed a couple hundred thousand in treatment, it would have hit his savings or put him in debt $6,500. That's not a bad deal.

Perhaps.  But, what about the person with a $500/month prescription?  Or the person who needs an MRI, but the imaging center won’t perform the test until they’re paid in full?  Not everyone gets to just ‘start a tab’.

That will just be another magic exception to his yet nebulus and seemingly highly malleable rule . Almost as if it's the exception and not the rule.