Middle-aged Midwesterners are their own species. They're known for instinctively try to turn anything into a casserole like a beaver building a dam over a speaker playing the sound of running water. Just look what Chicagoans did to pizza.
SSDI payments aren't determined on need, they're based on prior income. If you were ever a stay at home parent or are young, good luck. Neither disability nor a whopping 35% tax rebate on healthcare premiums help with upfront cancer cost leading 51% of patients to take on debt¹⁷
Pharma's justification for price gouging is ~innovation~ but drug monopolies result in the opposite. Not only are high prices still tacked on drugs made with tax-funded research⁹ but increases don't correlate with advancements & discourage access to existing life-saving drugs¹⁰
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going down a very touristy street and one of the guys who tries to lure tourists into their restaurant made eye contact with me and pointed at his menu (i am on a bus and i still motioned no thank you)