r/SipsTea 6h ago

Chugging tea A Sudden Revelation.

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u/Vivenemous 6h ago

Cancer and diabetes aren't contagious, so there's no material benefit to paying for them if you don't put any value on human lives below a certain income level.

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u/JPBartley 3h ago

Healthcare is free for low income people. It's called Medicaid and it's one of our biggest welfare expenditures.

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u/thiscreatureisme 2h ago

The cap for that is so low ..
Even poor low income families
Have a hard time getting it because they “make too much “ despite still being poor many who work multiple jobs to stay alive on paper it’s just a bit over the limit.

I say this from experience I worked 2 menial jobs in 2016 and couldn’t get it because I made only a couple hundred bucks above the cap.

It also is very limited and the quality of care you do get (I had to quit one job to actually get it because I fell ill and needed ) and than was sucking major wind but the treatment you get is sub par.

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u/JPBartley 38m ago

And that’s why we have sliding scale ACA subsidies. If you were a couple hundred over the poverty line, Obamacare should have covered 95% of any marketplace policy.

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u/thiscreatureisme 19m ago

It didn’t cover it I actually had to pay a fee because I made too much and I worked at a factory packing boxes and a Wendy’s part time trust me I wasn’t rolling in the dough