Too Bad Trump Voters Won't Be The Only Ones To Die From Lack Of Health Insurance.]

[TheMastersNemesis]

Good riddance to any of those bastards.

[Demtexan]

1. My sister and brother-in-law will be two of them.

They are in and out of hospitals all the time.

[ffr]

2. I think that this just means that if someone goes to the hospital w/o insurance

It'll be covered by local government, much like it has been in the past, i.e. passed onto the taxpayers.

[Demsrule86]

5. It was never covered...people who think that are just wrong. Recently a woman wrote

a OP hear about how her sister on Medicare couldn't afford lifesaving Chemo...she did not have a wrap around plan and the 20% amounted to thousands per month. She didn't get it and died. Hospitals will stabilize you and that is it. My cousin died weeks before Obamacare was implemented in a boating accident...28 years old. He was denied lifesaving surgery. If you can't pay, often you don't get treatment.

[Not Ruth]

7. Single payer would have saved her

[Demsrule86]

9. She was on medicare...which is what we are talking about Medicare for all.

There is a 20% gap which is now filled with insurance...their will be premiums and insurance involved so no medicare for all would not have saved her.

[Not Ruth]

10. The reason that she died was the enrollment period closed,would not have occurred under single payer

[Demsrule86]

11. Sure it would...single payer as introduced in the Senate...is Medicare for all.

There would be enrollment periods...and the bottom line is she couldn't afford a wrap around plan which would still be required. Medicare for all is not free ...there is no free lunch in this matter.

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[spooky3]

6. As Demsrule said, that is not true. To the extent it was

“Passed along”, it was not covered by local governments and taxpayers; it was reflected in higher prices paid privately by other hospital customers. Further, it’s not just hospitals that provide life saving treatment; many people simply didn’t go to the doctor for treatment because they couldn’t afford it, and a treatable problem became fatal.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I know.

It infuriates me that everyone gets to suffer. If it only could be just the Trump voters, I'd be pleased.

[sunonmars]

4. I've said it before, they won't realise consequences until it comes for them.......

Its always someone else's problem until its your problem.......They wont see it coming until they go to a hospital and are told, your insurance is junk and told to go elsewhere.