So the medical system is putting an elderly person to work and on the road at that.
So if he crashes and injure himself and another person the insurance company can get money from 3 different incidents two of which were avoidable.
I bet they are in their offices saying, “TRIPLE KILL”
I bet they are in their offices saying, “TRIPLE KILL”
I can hear this phrase.
DooOOMINATING!!!
Fine example of necrocapitalism.
That’s not in the article at all, like yes he got fucked by the insurance company and the hospital and just life in general but he paid off all that debt built up an IRA with several hundred grand in it, owns 20 acres of property, and traveled around the country
He is currently driving for uber so they can maintain a higher standard of living and so they can leave money for their children
Owns a home and a six figure retirement account balance. Tiny violins.
Got out of SIGNIFICANT medical debt, too, by saving $10 at a time. This story literally makes no sense. I bet this guy doesn’t even exist and it’s AI to advertise for Uber and dunk on the lazy libs.
Businessinsider is almost as much of a joke as Forbes lately
While this (perhaps hypothetical) individual is definitely much better off than most people, they’re still closer to poverty than being in the wealth class. Seriously anyone who makes a million dollars a year USD or less is closer to poverty than being rich. We shouldn’t be taking our frustration out on people who are doing slightly better than ourselves. We should be fighting the billionaire class, and the political leaders who are in their pockets.
Well the best we have is democracy.
…Which, for the people out there with bad fucking comprehension and inference ability, means that you DO have to get these people to vote with us instead of against their own best interest.
The middle are the people holding up change.
But the news is telling me to hate…oh wait.
That’s sad. Not just sad, but inhumane. As a species we are closer to our destruction.
I hope monkeys take over the world. they at least would have a better chance at forming a agreeable and domestic society that isn’t run by narcissists that are grossly overpaid and have the power to put wealth in the pockets of people down on their luck(*) and who form a unjust hierarchy that classes people by their fortune and therefore prevents some people to afford housing or medical bills, and which the rich people are afraid that they will have to give some money up to pay for simple tasks like repairing roads and constructing buildings. So, naturally, the people that are living paycheck-to-paycheck have to “chip in” and “do their part in this great American economy” while trying to keep financially afloat and survive. Maybe monkeys will see earlier on that this is not the solution. Monkey for president.
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(did you know that was my wife whom you decided to-whaaa?!) from Hamilton original Broadway cast and recording by Lin-Manuel Miranda and others, on Amazon music. as you can tell I have an Alexa and listen to Hamilton quite a bit.
Who did you vote for, Jeff?
WHO DID YOU VOTE FOR, JEFF‽
As if both parties aren’t in the pocket of the insurance industry.
Obamacare was Romneycare first.
yep
Why don’t you tell us?
I don’t know. that’s why I’m asking.
It seems like you already made that conclusion.
They just wanted cheaper eggs.
All the old people who are getting into trouble because of life, have had their whole lives to stear politics into a more social direction to prevent all of this from happening.
Reminder that GenZ swung Trump.
It’s pretty hard to stear politics in a more progressive direction when the society you live in is uneducated as fuck and uneducated people turn into conservative voters.
All I ever hear from Americans is complaining everything is shit, there’s nothing they can do, nothing will ever change because others need to do it and not them which will never happen.
That way it will never change, if no one does anything and everyone is just perfecting their victim role.
Go educate people, get into politics, fight fake news, kill a health insurance CEO, etc.
Trump was the progressive candidate in that election. He offered change, Kamala didn’t. Kamala was the ‘business as usual’ candidate.
If the D offer up a candidate on a change platform, they’d get the votes. But they didn’t. Hopefully they do in '28.
I mean they also raised gen z so.
You’re not wrong, but that generation has some wild variance in politics and leopards eat everyone’s faces if you let them
Nobody commenting is reading the article.
The headline suggests that medical bills drove them into poverty so much so that he’s had to be driving for Uber at 76. Thats not the case, and the article lays it all out.
It looks like about 25 years after the medical bills wiped them out financially, they recovered financially:
I really didn’t want to retire in my 60s, but we were getting older, and my wife wanted me to be spending more time at home. When I retired, I had some equity in my home and around $300,000 in my IRA. I also started to fund an IRA for my wife, which I built to mid-five figures. This allowed us to travel extensively within the US for the first few years. But a part of me felt like we probably weren’t going to live that long anyway because everybody around us was dying.
We should be celebrating two things:
- the fact that the ACA passed into law and that what happened to this couple in the 1990s can’t happen again under today’s law
- the hard work they did rebuilding financially to have over $350k in savings + home equity and have have a comfortable retirement to be able to afford extensive travel they did in retirement.
Spent his whole life voting against the evils of socialism. I want to barf in his cab.
Where does it say anything about how he voted?
Boomer construction manager, do the math. Boomers have fought healthcare reform their whole lives because other people get sick.
Oh, so it doesn’t and you’re just making a wild assumption. Cool.
@grok define prejudice
What you’re doing here is literally the definition of a straw man argument.
Right there in the statistics, probably.
How do you know that? Article doesn’t seem to mention his voting habits, and his wife worked for an environmental testing company, doesn’t sound very Maga or even remotely Republican to me
She was sent home a day after because we couldn’t afford it.
This is standard normal American thing. Can’t pay the bill? Die, scum! This isn’t new. This isn’t Trump. This is America, always has been. Be proud of it!
I’m so happy that I don’t live in that hell hole
I remembered getting a bill in the neighborhood of $246,000 from the hospital that covered the surgery and her recovery in the hospital. We still had a whole road ahead of us for aftercare. By the end of it, the bills totaled about $300,000.
Even with my prostate cancer, pacemaker, and half a lung removed, my physical strength and stamina are remarkably good. As a mental challenge, I try to push myself in every situation I’m in. I find driving at night calming, and I like the aloneness of it.
If I was staring down cancer like that, just fucking kill me. Quit the game before my family pays through the nose for my inevitable death.
People like this have no excuses for not becoming national heroes.
The country with the most liberties, everybody.
We’ve known for half a century how bad social systems are. Even prisons are for profit… Bud; if you decided to stick around and grow old in the USA, I’m sorry to say, but you are a fuckin moron!
Ah yes, if your country is shit, you should just leave! Why didn’t the other 340 million people living there think of that?
Yeah, either you change it or leave. We’ve seen the US going down the drain for the last 50 years, corporations and government are working against the people, the system is broken. Just look at other developped countries and you should see this is no place to live.
So yes: anyone living there by choice today is a fucking moron.
So yes: anyone living there by choice today is a fucking moron.
Simple minds always see simple solutions for enormously complicated problems. Thus, how we got in this situation in America, people believing massive issues have simple causes and solutions. Great to see it’s fully contagious and/or baked into the human condition no matter where you go.
Dude, if an “enormously complicated” problem is ruining your life and you cannot fix it, why would you not consider the much much simpler solution of moving?
Keep telling yourself you are powerless and see where it gets you. I would flee this shithole before it becomes an actual dictaturship. Guess we’ll see what the misterms have in store…
Yah you’re right, hundreds of millions of people just aren’t as smart as you, it must be crushing to have so much clarity and insight that your entire species doesn’t share, the righteous loneliness must be palpable.
Guess the German and Austrian Jews had it coming, they were just too stupid to see what was obvious. Should’ve just moved, of course! Why didn’t they think of that?
It’s really easy to move if you get a running start and really give it some muscle. If you have room in your cartoonishly large suitcase, you can bring your family, your home, your car, your career and your extended family and whatever support systems you have! Also, governments all over the world love when you just drop in unannounced, they set up trampolines and big piles of comfy pillows for you to jump onto safely and everything.
Many did move.
Yes, I agree with this statement.
2/3 of Americans voted against their own interests, out of stupidity, greed or racism, and the remaining is fucking dumb if they choose to stay.
Your take on it is like people saying “there are so many people that believe in God, are you saying everyone is stupid except you?”. Yes, I am. Same fucking thing, numbers don’t make them right…
Time will tell. Until then, enjoy your new authoritarian government and lawless system.
When you resent a segment of a population for not living up to your standards, you’re not being a better person, you’re being that which you hate. Black-and-white thinking, xenophobia, hate.
Meanwhile, if you recognize the failings of populations over individuals, you will form far more useful and nuanced analysis of situations. An individual person has great capacity and infinite capability for change, for learning, for adapting and understanding. But when you are talking populations, they take on every worst property you can attribute and become inflexible, disappointing mobs of stupidity.
If you can’t hold both of these ideas in your head at once to both empathize and sympathize with those you don’t understand, while remaining true to your own values and understanding of the world, again you’re just MAGA with an accent.
enjoy your new authoritarian government and lawless system.
It’s there too, wherever you are and however much better you think your tribe is, you are the same fucking species with the same fucking vulnerabilities, and the harder you stamp your feet and shake your fist that you’re “better” the more vulnerable you are to having your agency taken away without you even caring or realizing it.
I don’t really want to continue to try to teach “being a mature adult” to someone just looking for validation for their own self-importance, so I’ll leave it at that and just hope you grow up one day. I won’t be there to see it, or anything else you have to say.
The best healthcare in the world is what these Republicans and blue dogs say.
Maybe it is for those who can afford it.
Is it a coincidence that the money has the top of a pyramid on it? It’s a fucking pyramid scheme. Of course it’s awesome if you’re on top.
Trash country is trash.
The title is hella misleading. This guy is doing really well. Why was this posted??
