Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.
He told me he’s not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.
They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don’t.
Clarence Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written narrowly for former enslaved people and doesn't apply broadly today. Using that same logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets and doesn't apply to AR-15's, but somehow, he's never made that argument.
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This family needs support, they have to cover funeral expenses. 4 young kids devastated and a mom left to pick up all the pieces. Please help if you can.
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Please donate if able or share link. This family needs all the support they can get in this tragic time. 4 school aged kids will still need to be cared for.
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Hey Americans, I might be a know-nothing Brit, but I can't help thinking that arresting your president for raping kids might be a better idea than letting him collapse the global economy and possibly end the world. Just a suggestion.
Joseph Schwartz was convicted of healthcare fraud.
His mom then donated $1 million to Trump.
Then Trump pardoned him.
Republicans don’t seem to care about fraud if it’s followed by bribes.
This must be underlined a million times. The DOJ is ILLEGALLY withholding Epstein files material and ILLEGALLY redacting co conspirators names in the files. We keep saying it but people rarely realize what this implies: protection of co conspirators in fundamental files.
“Democrats are afraid of what they’ll find in the Epstein Files. They don’t want full accountability.”
I will burn the Democratic Party to the ground and piss on the ashes if I find out our leaders were involved in a massive child sex trafficking operation. Every Democrat I know feels the same.
Meanwhile, Republicans are doing all they can to ensure these files remain redacted and incomplete while they test balloon messaging that downplays what happened to these kids.
We are not the same.