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[jmcrookston@mastodon.social]

@VeroniqueB99

"Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most-americans-file-for-bankruptcy.html

[desantis@mastodon.bida.im]

@VeroniqueB99 “These people” (1%’s) are really going to FAFO when the rest of us (99%’s) decide collectively that we’ve had enough. It will happen eventually, we just don’t know when.

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@VeroniqueB99 yet people like this usually would've said they are perfectly happy with the American health insurance swamp before this saga and yell at anyone supporting & wanting to implement universal healthcare a communist socialist...

[squeakypancakes@sunbeam.city]

@VeroniqueB99 some people dont

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@VeroniqueB99 Luigi was right. We need a plumber.

[davidbridger@writing.exchange]

@VeroniqueB99 The only good health insurance CEO is one that's bleeding out on the sidewalk.

[si_irini@mastodon.social]

@VeroniqueB99

That is so sad to read 🥹
and it makes me so fuc.... furius

[fflyn@mastodon.social]

@VeroniqueB99

A child is suffering and fighting for survival. After spending their whole lives working for their child's wellbeing, after seven months, the parents realise that it was all in vain. Meanwhile, someone else is profiting from all this misfortune.

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@heafnerj @VeroniqueB99 hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress, taking today what tomorrow never brings

[jhooper@techhub.social]

@DavidBridger @VeroniqueB99 while having their insurance claim denied

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@VeroniqueB99 WWLD

[the5thcolumnist@ottawa.place]

@VeroniqueB99

That would not happen in Canada but you would probably have to weight longer for knee or hip surgery.

[cjmoorehead@techhub.social]

@VeroniqueB99 Luigi did the right thing.

[perrym@newsie.social]

@VeroniqueB99 Indicted not in jail! Prediction: Comey's case gets thrown out.

BTW my prediction % is pretty good!

I predicted that Kelce and Taylor would marry 1.5 years ago on Valentines Day. I was only a little off on the timing.

[wheresmywater@mastodon.world]

@VeroniqueB99 they called Luigi a murder. We know who the real murderers are.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@frlan @VeroniqueB99 1/2 "In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality..."

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@frlan @VeroniqueB99 2/2 "...I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.
Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire"

Letter to The New Stateman in 2023

Universal healthcare is NOT some batshit crazy Marxist theory, it was consensus politics in many countries for decades after WW2.

Source : https://www.thepoke.com/2025/09/20/this-viral-letter-nails-how-the-meaning-of-right-and-left-has-changed-in-uk-politics-in-the-last-60-years/

[justinmac84@mastodon.social]

@VeroniqueB99 It is a cruel, greedy and awful system. I'm sorry.

[spytfyre@mastodon.scot]

@maddad @VeroniqueB99
Cough
Just "these days"?

It has been sliding for a while.
You know
Iraq war v1. 0 & 2.0 weren't entirely legit either then came 119 which promoted Afghanistan and then the Monty pythonesque "running away"
Letting Putin grab chunks of Ukraine...
Going to stop there as my brain is yelling "enough already" which I'm sure yours is too