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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
December 29, 2019 at 8:18 pm
Just for the record, Yang’s freedom dividend plan seems fine and all, but the odds of his winning the nomination are slim to none. I know they said that about Trump, but, by this point in 2015, he was actually racing ahead in the polls, and Yang himself remains at about 3%. Perhaps some less long shot candidate can pick it up, maybe smooth over issues with the VAT, but if Yang actually somehow wins the nomination, I will eat my own head.
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
December 29, 2019 at 8:25 pm
Yeah, yeah, I know. Yang probably isn't going to make it and that is ok, but the idea is interesting and we need to face the facts that jobs are being automated away and free money is a way to manage that although worth has to be generated somehow for that money to be worth anything. Bill Gates says an automation tax could do the trick. It would also make companies think twice about replacing people with automation.
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
December 29, 2019 at 8:59 pm
(December 29, 2019 at 8:25 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Yeah, yeah, I know. Yang probably isn't going to make it and that is ok, but the idea is interesting and we need to face the facts that jobs are being automated away and free money is a way to manage that although worth has to be generated somehow for that money to be worth anything. Bill Gates says an automation tax could do the trick. It would also make companies think twice about replacing people with automation. not necessarily they’ll just do what a lot of companies secretly do, hire disabled people for sub minimum wages if they can’t use machines they’ll use the lowest skilled workers and pay them pennies on the hour which is sickeningly legal
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
December 30, 2019 at 1:25 pm
BQ, have you applied for disability with Social Security? You don't have to wait until you're retired to get Social Security if you have an impairment that keeps you from working.
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
December 30, 2019 at 1:32 pm
(December 30, 2019 at 1:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: BQ, have you applied for disability with Social Security? You don't have to wait until you're retired to get Social Security if you have an impairment that keeps you from working.
And Medicaid as well if you're in the US.
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
December 31, 2019 at 12:26 am
(December 30, 2019 at 1:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: BQ, have you applied for disability with Social Security? You don't have to wait until you're retired to get Social Security if you have an impairment that keeps you from working. I have social security with disability 700 from social security 50 from disability, and I have Medicaid and Medicare
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
December 31, 2019 at 7:26 pm
(December 31, 2019 at 12:26 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: (December 30, 2019 at 1:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: BQ, have you applied for disability with Social Security? You don't have to wait until you're retired to get Social Security if you have an impairment that keeps you from working. I have social security with disability 700 from social security 50 from disability, and I have Medicaid and Medicare
Here, everyone gets care. When it comes to health care, the US is a third world country.
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
January 1, 2020 at 6:54 am
Health care is relatively affordable in many third world countries.
I’d definitely trade quality for access.
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
January 3, 2020 at 1:37 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2020 at 1:38 am by Rev. Rye.)
(December 31, 2019 at 12:26 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: (December 30, 2019 at 1:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: BQ, have you applied for disability with Social Security? You don't have to wait until you're retired to get Social Security if you have an impairment that keeps you from working. I have social security with disability 700 from social security 50 from disability, and I have Medicaid and Medicare
God-fucking-damn. $750 a month and you’re blind? Chris-Chan makes more from SSDI, despite having sight, autism, and no desire whatsoever for gainful employment. Someone like that getting more from the same service from someone who actually can’t work strikes me as a jaw-dropping injustice.
For more information on this particular case, witness this NSFW (and NSFMH) article about the “ monthly tugboat”.
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RE: Disability and Universal Healthcare
January 3, 2020 at 1:53 am
(January 3, 2020 at 1:37 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: (December 31, 2019 at 12:26 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I have social security with disability 700 from social security 50 from disability, and I have Medicaid and Medicare
God-fucking-damn. $750 a month and you’re blind? Chris-Chan makes more from SSDI, despite having sight, autism, and no desire whatsoever for gainful employment. Someone like that getting more from the same service from someone who actually can’t work strikes me as a jaw-dropping injustice.
For more information on this particular case, witness this NSFW (and NSFMH) article about the “monthly tugboat”. Wow that’s depressingly unfair
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