In death, one cancer patient helps to erase millions in medical debt
In death, one cancer patient helps to erase millions in medical debt
A New York woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase million of dollars in medical debt with a posthumous plea for help. Casey McIntyre told followers in a social media message posted by her husband that she had arranged to buy the medical debt of others and destroy it as a ...
RIP, goodhearted woman.
America, if you'd vote for change, this wouldn't be necessary. The US is the only developed country where this is commonplace.
America, if you’d vote for change, this wouldn’t be necessary. The US is the only developed country where this is commonplace.
In order for us to vote for change, change has to be on the ballot.
In order for us to vote for change, change has to be on the ballot.
Moreover, the ballot itself must change.
Can't echo this enough. Find your local RCV group and volunteer
Yeah, but still. To me, one party wants as much of this to change as possible. The other one wants to take us as far back toward the 1950s as possible.
One party wants to take us back to the 1950s, the other party pretends to want change. Both parties want the status quo. They're the ruling class and they want we peons to stay in our place and produce wealth for them. There's not a Left and a Right anymore, there's center-right and deep-right.
Time and again, Democrats claim to want to help, but even when they are a majority, they always find a way to blame Republicans for their bills not getting passed. This is by design. They keep receiving votes because, "obviously, we're trying!" when in reality they don't want to risk their wealth any more than anyone else in the ruling class. They all live in a bubble outside of reality where they don't even have to think about or concern themselves with "tiny" problems like medical debt thanks to perks like their government health plan and voting for their own pay raises.
Every once in a blue, they dangle a carrot like the affordable care act, net neutrality, or the attempts to delete student loan debt, so they can keep voters coming back and voting D, but it's all just a contrived farce.
Unfortunately, now it's either voting for fascism or voting for the status quo, so for the preservation of the country, more will vote D, and the Democratic party will assume it is because We The People like their weak attempts at policy.
You're not wrong that the Republicans wanna go back to the 1850s nowadays. But Democrats campaign on Medicare for all and single payer with no intent to ever implement it. It's a popular idea, but would hurt their bottom line if they ever actually did anything about it.
And our system is rigged against anyone not running as either party, so...
Another "orphan crushing machine". Add it to the pile.
Incomprehensibly depressing. Everything about this should make us ashamed of ourselves as a species. Or we should just stop pretending that we value each other more than cash. Or at all actually.
Everything about this should make us ashamed of ourselves as a
speciescountryDon't rope the rest of humanity into this. Most of the rest of us have got it figured out.
Oh gee, why didn't I think about voting for change?
It's so obvious now that you put it that way
I'm sorry, but we as a country can't vote our way out of a paper bag. We're too caught up in division politics and general propaganda to make any leeway
How do the economics work if one dollar can erase one hundred dollars of debt? Somehow profit is still made?
Constantly feels like we're losing the best of us. I can't imagine facing death and thinking, "How can I make a bunch of other people's lives easier?"
AP is really nosediving. Malware ads and no cursory explanation of purchasing medical debt.
Democrats are just as committed to this for-profit driven healthcare system as Republicans are. They're just a little bit more polite about it.
Not really. There is at least a decent portion of Democrats in office that would love to at the very least offer a public option for health insurance. Unfortunately there are more than enough Democrats in office against the idea combined with all of the Republicans to block any sort of attempt at that or Medicare for All.
There were more than enough Democrats in Congress in 2008 to make that happen.
There are more than enough Democrats now to make it enough of an issue that it becomes part of the public conversation.
There are more than enough Democrats now that could make an internal party rule that prohibits Democrats from ever lobbying for pharmaceutical or insurance companies.
However, the Democratic Party is far more motivated to kneecap actual healthcare reforms than actually implement what they say they believe in.
While this is for sure life changing for those it helps, and magnanimous of this heroine, it is still chock full of shame that the motherfuckers who've twisted the system all up STILL get their win, no matter what.
I hope BRICS absolutely destroys the dollar, and when that falls, and the military and police no longer are getting paid, everything else'll fall too. Then the rich can be just as broke as everyone else, but they'll have food, supplies, jewelry so the armed will be making it out to mansion manor with the quickness. Like the next day.
And no, the police won't work to restore order. Work for free? Have you met these people before? Look at the last 20 years, those motherfuckers will be LEADING the looting.
Don't think they'll be any kind of ally tho, they'll be burning thru ammo taking out any one who even looks at them, you included. They're only about themselves, as evidenced, by everywhere.
Voting won't solve anything now that we're one election away from authoritarianism. It's the difference between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
