Medical debt is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States.
Not gambling. Not reckless spending. Not the moral failures that the rhetoric of personal responsibility loves to invoke.
Getting sick.
The leading cause of financial ruin in the wealthiest country in human history is the biological inevitability of the human body breaking down.
This happens nowhere else in the developed world.
In no other wealthy nation does a person survive cancer and then spend a decade paying for the survival.
In no other wealthy nation does a grandmother choose between insulin and rent.
In no other wealthy nation is the question "can I afford to call an ambulance" a question a person has to genuinely ask.
This is not an accident of policy.
This is the policy.
The extraction is the point.
The debt is the product.
The sick person is the raw material.
Ein Witz, der angeblich in der Ukraine kursiert:
Putin stirbt und kommt in die Hölle. Wegen guter Führung darf er ein paar Tage Urlaub in Moskau machen.
Er bestellt einen Wodka in einer Bar u. fragt den Barkeeper:
„Gehört uns eigentlich die Krim?" 1/
BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X.
Americans shouldn't be sacrificing their public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.
BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.
This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.
Yet another complete failure of Texas leadership to let this happen. While Ken Paxton is suing toothpaste companies, he SHOULD be suing the federal government to immediately stop this destruction of Big Bend.
I could post all day every day about the ways Republicans have failed Texas, and I STILL wouldn’t get around to everything.
They have destroyed our state.
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