The vague, collective language is pissing me off, too…
US lawmakers
This is an election year. Which ones?
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We spend vastly more than other nations to arrive at a system that doesn’t care for all. In fact, it’s estimated that 68,000 people die in the US from preventable causes simply because there is no overall coverage for citizens. It is an inescapable realization, however, that this number is wildly underrepresented. How would you be able to be in the mind of those who get up in the morning, have that same damn headache or chest pain that won’t go away, take a ton of aspirin to press on, only to collapse and die at a later date because the condition was a timebomb? I don’t think there’s anyone with a notepad collecting data on these deaths in a systematic manner. It’s probably because they don’t really want accurate numbers on this carnage (kind of how they don’t count COVID issues anymore in an organized fashion). I generally do this when something robs my vibe. I close my eyes and cover my ears like I’m a Democrat hearing the names of murdered kids in Gaza at the DNC.
The notion that all could be covered is viewed as unlikely in the extreme, even within the Democratic party, yet other nations pull this off without difficulty. Our “lethal” military (in theory) covers all of us, as in, they will go to war for “us,” but non-lethal, life-affirming health care is a bridge too far. So we have socialism for the military but not for basic needs that seem more relevant to the average person. Of course, our tax dollars do help provide universal coverage—just not for Americans. I will give you one guess what nation sucking the teat of the US has those benefits.
I would say the common denominator in all of this is the fact that the United States works more like a farm or a mine, pulling resources from the individuals and giving them to corporations, often with no reciprocal gift in kind. To simply provide for healthcare by utilizing tax dollars and paying those who provide the actual services is a clean and direct situation, but in the supreme wisdom that only the US can muster, we have middlemen to the extent that the whole scenario is falling apart. The greed of insurance companies knows no bounds, and like any parasites, they will keep eating, even to their own detriment.
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If I’m breathing through my brain, I’ve probably got more immediate problems.
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it’s all bullshit, Mils.
but you already knew that…
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Third set of threats against our local schools this week. 2 students arrested. A rash of these all over the state.
How am I supposed to talk about this with my 8 year old?
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Exactly 
the district has been great about communicating what’s been going on but damnit. 4 emails since Monday. And text messages to tell us to check the emails.
None of the threats involved my kid’s school. Fuck the damned guns. Fuck the stupid gun culture we live in. Fuck how the district has to treat these threats as real and arrest the children involved instead of getting them help because any one of them could result in dozens of dead children. NO. MORE GUNS. Our children deserve better than this
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“shot by Letcher County sheriff” is the rest of the headline.
