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It doesn’t always though, not by definition, and you’ve already been provided counter examples

There’s no “might” about it. Gemini summary below to the query “percent of US residents who avoid healthcare due to costs.” Supporting links available for each. One such link here: https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs/ —— A significant number of Americans avoid or delay healthcare due to cost, including: Uninsured adults In 2023, 46% of uninsured adults skipped medical treatment due to cost. Uninsured adults are also less likely to have a primary care provider. Working-age adults In 2023, 38% of working-age adults delayed or skipped healthcare due to cost. Adults with employer coverage In 2023, 29% of adults with employer coverage delayed or skipped healthcare due to cost. Adults with marketplace or individual-market plans In 2023, 37% of adults with marketplace or individual-market plans delayed or skipped healthcare due to cost. Adults with Medicaid In 2023, 39% of adults with Medicaid delayed or skipped healthcare due to cost. Adults with Medicare In 2023, 42% of adults with Medicare delayed or skipped healthcare due to cost

We know things change. If there were no time, that would be impossible. Essentially all concepts are made up in our mind. Length and weight and density and brightness are similar examples. Some concepts are more useful than others, but just because we’ve created words to describe them doesn’t make them any less real. They’d still exist even if we did not.

What else does your crystal ball tell you? Do you also already have next week’s lottery numbers? Please start sharing those instead. They’re far more valuable.

Much like the obfuscation around cigarettes causing cancer or CO2 leading to climate change, the “socialism is always bad” narrative was a successful well executed marketing campaign by the insurance companies (who do literally nothing but leech money out of the pockets of patients) and for-profit hospitals (who prioritize shareholder value over patient outcomes). Healthcare costs remain the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US and too many people cannot afford the basic care or medicine they require to survive. Yes, Obamacare made it better, but it didn’t do enough and was the best he could achieve in the face of (literally) violent opposition.

I didn’t ignore it. I argued the same thing a decade before you even joined the site and before Obamacare (not what he wanted, but what he had to settle for) passed In my state, public funds are being siphoned away from public schools and given as vouchers for private schools and that RW ideology you mentions continues to ascend while our reading and test scores fall.

Oh, thank goodness. Only 27.1 Million people in one if the richest countries in all of history lack even basic access to healthcare. Phew. And here I thought there was a problem.

The issue is more around ERs being the sole and only option available to too many. By law, ER must treat, but the treatment provided will tend to be minimal to the point of ineffective and commonly for things which could’ve been far better addressed easily in earlier months for lower cost with better outcomes. The problem isn’t just the profit of insurance companies, but profits of the hospital conglomerates. The wealthy don’t have this problem, but more and more “middle class” do and those in poverty or homeless only see amplified versions of the same thing.

That’s fair

I posit neither. Seems more likely the exploration is in ways to further divide and sow distrust more generally.

Mike Johnson was just re-elected speaker.

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Depends if it’s a savings or a checking account and whether it’s a bank or credit union and whether local, national, or global institution

Thanks for the insight, just be cautious here and recall: If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. Sharing to highlight the diversity of autism spectrum disorder and the different ways people with autism experience it

How so? What’s the primary tie into the topic here?

What about the second half of your sentence, the part where you dismiss all rich people equally as not gaining peace through their actions? How do you know anything whatsoever about their actions or sense of peace? You don’t. Lots of eat the rich sentiment is in the air. I get it, but that type of thinking is part of the problem. We’re in this together and won’t solve our problems by splitting into us and them or blaming the other.

News flash. Nobody cares

Keep yer woke mind vaccines away from me and muh guns, libtard

Boo hoo

Winning the lottery paradoxically also brings lots of negatives like people trying to take advantage of you, scam you, pretending to be family, never knowing whether the people in your life are there bc of who you are and not just seeking a quick payout, etc. Either way, painting all people with the same brush based on single traits like this is a false generalization and logical fallacy.

So now you’re saying it IS ubiquitous?

Thank you for the update. This wasn’t how it came across when you introduced it: