jeff fox wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 1:31 pm
On what fucking planet would it be a sensible idea to just not pay your insurance premium?! Thinking that will end well for anyone is more batshit that what this kid did.
They have us by the balls and there is EXTREMELY little we can do about it if we expect to have any amount of healthcare available to us. I hope all of you who are covered through work never have to experience just how FUCKED it is trying to fend for yourself on the healthcare marketplace.
Kinda depends where you live. You do realize the worst that will happen if you miss one month is a letter and
maybe a late fee, right? At least, in NYC. Kinda like a credit card.
Imagine if that became a movement. Just for one month. Say, the same number of people posting dumb memes about real-estate-heir assassinâif they all just didn't pay.
And if people did it just b/c they could, accompanied by a letter as to why. And threatened to do it again. Shareholders would freak.
Far-fetched and silly, maybe. B/c I can tell you that's a more realistic scenario than finding even 25 people willing to kill a CEO. (Out of whom how many will succeed? And at what cost? Making what muddled point?)
You do know that clinics exist and that, for the most part, doctors are obligated to treat you for most emergencies, whether you can pay or not, right? And that debt-forgiveness programs for healthcare do exist if you're willing to look for them. (Obviously, this is not a great strategy for those w/chronic illness.)
Don't wanna get too heavily into it, but I actually
had been fending for myself in the healthcare marketplaceâsometimes buying my own on the open market (pre-Obamacare), sometimes discounted via a guild (till Obamacare made that impossible in NY), and sometimes at the mercy of some grimy but ultimately pretty ok public clinics in NYCâsince 2002 or so. For, I dunno, 15 years? That only changed for me relatively recently. (Although I'm still a freelancer and by no stretch of the imagination a high earner; I have qualified for medical care at a clinic, after all.) So there you go!
Would I advise any of this? Not necessarily. But really,
killing some dude (or more accurately cheering someone else for it b/c you won't) is the alternative?