Not long ago, Americans learned that the average life expectancy for white people in this country – those most likely to have voted for Donald Trump – actually declined for the first time in many years. The pathologies and frustrations believed to have driven that decline may have motivated the tiny handful of votes that gave…
We could easily see a Trump re-election because empathy died years before this election.
This is why I find it close to impossible to reason with Trump voters. All of this information was easily available before the election, and they voted to take their health insurance AND MINE away, anyway.
I hope the get doomed to the grave before the next election, every one of them, family included. But I doubt they will ever ever make any sort of connection between the votes and unfortunate outcomes for anyone they know.
As for obamacare, I noticed this guy compares apples to oranges. Can he give us statistics that all those people paying thru the nose for crappy new mandated insurance are dying appreciably less than they would have without obamacare.
I have BCBS and I still need to wait six weeks to even “meet” a doctor so he or she can decide if they will accept me as their primary care patient. Hence my insurance only gets used for emergencies. I’m 53 and have had a hernia 10 years ago and recently an eye problem that medicine can’t do anything about, after wasting two days of dealing with insurance companies and medical office forms and a few hundred bucks. Besides that it covers a part of visits to the chiropractor . This is what I pay thousands of bucks a year for in the bestest medical system in the world. If I get cancer or heart disease, I probably won’t ever know until it’s too late.
I can’t imagine what it’s like with obamacrap policies. I totally get why people feel like burning it all to the ground as far as obamas greatest achievement. It’s the rest of trumps fucking agenda and heritage junta that scares the crap out of me. Why I even took a whole day off so I could vote for nasty neoliberals Hillary in a state she was never in danger of losing because DT really is the end of the world.
Guest: The Medicaid expansion under the ACA helped pay for my cataract surgeries last year, so I would literally be blind right now without Obamacare. People forget about Medicaid, but take it from me, you can have a good secure job, and excellent health insurance, have a stroke, and it will all be gone after a few months of not being able to work. Then you’re left with Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security Disability Insurance. It can happen to you.