I mean you were literally talking about Gaf and found a single post. I skimmed through the thread and couldn't find a single myself.
Regardless, what's your point exactly? If 15-20 million people are uninsured over the course of a decade it's not unreasonable that quite a lot of people will die from not having the access to health care.
How dare these pesky millennials be concerned about the well being of people in this country that will be affected by a bunch of shitty old white men in the government.
My point is that being hyperbolic doesn't help, it makes the point you're trying to make less impactful. I didn't want the ACA repealed, I don't want people to lose their coverage, but being insane about the outcome of this is just stupid.
I am against the ACA just like I am against about blanket recollections of taxes for a product you cant really...uh, measure.
I need 100 street lamps. Okay, finite cost. Pretty easy to measure. One person needing medical coverage is something that could stretch to infinity. Is it fair? no, but life isn't fair either. From personal experience in my country, when all the bonus and welfare add up, a poor person ends up more privileged than someone who was technically earning double the amount, because that person doesn't get jack shit. Example, you can get free housing almost (with the programs for social housing) by earning minimum wage (around 700€), but you have to pay a full rent (which would rbe around 800€) if you earn, let's say 1000-1200€. Okay. makes sense. Wait no, it doesn't. Also you don't have access to bonus to go to dentists for free, or food stamps, or any kind of reduced cost on water/gas/electricity. So yeah, fuck socialist ideas. The idea that a person should get treatments worth of thousands of dollars from someone else is simply stupid.
I also loathe the idea of giving blood. I really don't donate any blood. Reasoning? I was a blood donor, and so was my mom. My mom had a terrible accident and needed a blood transfusion. Guess what, they couldn't guarantee that the blood transfussion would be clear of HIV or HepC. Okay, so you're telling me i'm giving you fucking plasma and i'm not even in a list where I can get clean blood when i need it once? Go fuck yourself. it's the same principle: you give and don't get in return when you need. So i'm keeping all that plasma in my body, thanks.
Now, if it's something like an accident based illness, society should cover you. To that extent I agree. In fact paying taxes on a society means you're part of it, you're contributing to the maintenance of it. And if something happened that crippled you, you deserve a compensation. But if it's something that originates from you, well, then that's not the whole society's fault, is it?
PS: I needed to vent.
Btw, to the millions will die fallacy.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htmhttps://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db88.htm#x2013;2010there's about the same amount of people dying pre-obamacare in comparison to demography. I'd be surprised if ACA actually saved over 5k lifes a year.