Obamacare rates shocker.

[mrplunkey]

If I can produce an equally gut-wrenching story about a family that lost their home to fire and wasn't insured, could we nationalize home insurance while we're at it?

 

[jnevin]

If I can produce an equally gut-wrenching story about a family that lost their home to fire and wasn't insured, could we nationalize home insurance while we're at it?

People don't need homes, you silly goose.

 

[mrplunkey]

People don't need homes, you silly goose.

I knew this guy once who caught pneumonia because he lost his house and couldn't stay out of the rain. With his dying breath, he said: "Housing.... should.... be.... a .... right."

Lack of national home insurance cost him his life.

 

[ceo]

People don't need homes, you silly goose.

Of course they do! Where else will they live? That should be a guaranteed right just like healthcare. Everyone should be guaranteed a home to live in with insurance. America needs to do a better job taking care of its people. It's a shame we have homeless people here.

 

[bigbassturd]

Lololol!!!!!!!!

 

[75th]

Awwww good old straw man. How I have missed thee.

 

[75th]

Was there no way the woman could have gotten Medicaid, et.al. assistance?

While rules can vary by state, Medicaid is a bitch to qualify for and receive.

 

[Mr. dB]

Awwww good old straw man. How I have missed thee.

And reductio ad absurdium.

 

[ceo]

While rules can vary by state, Medicaid is a bitch to qualify for and receive.

It's even harder to get when you don't try!

 

[Headholio]

Solution to that problem: buy fucking insurance just like every other responsible asshole who wants to be treated when they get sick.

These people had hispanic names but were Americans. The mom and son didn't even speak spanish fluently.
Mom worked cleaning houses. Made something like 13k per year and there was some poverty line for extra medical assistance that was cut off at 12k/yr.

Dad had health problems and worked on and off, served in Viet Nam.
Son served in the first gulf war. Couldn't find a job and came to see me one day. I hired him.

Overall, a family that doesn't fit into the republican model of good old "real americans", but damn good hard working people. Faithful and loyal and family oriented people who just work hard and try to make it as best they can.

I gave the kid a chance, and he has proven himself to be a good employee, now as a lead operator in chemical plant with good pay and benefits. But at the time, there was no way mom was going to be able to buy her own insurance.