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1. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “That makes you POORER.”

   Bankruptcy makes you POORER.

   I’d love to carry on this conversation but I need to pack for my vacation… Going to Cuba in a few days. Which reminds me… They have universal healthcare there too. Imagine that!

2. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “In our capitalistic system, you always have alternatives and choices.”

   One of those choices is to go bankrupt, the jokes on you as well.

3. 2 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   You pay taxes without getting healthcare, I pay taxes and get healthcare, you pay for inadequate health insurance and I don’t pay extra. Jokes on you.

4. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Oh my… You’re right, I should cancel my Canadian universal healthcare system along with my no co-pay, no administration fee, no out of pocket expenses, no denial, no credit card required system because 80 years ago Stalin did this really bad thing. We should start a petition getting the other 83 nations that have a national universal healthcare system do the same.

   Meanwhile, you can start a petition asking the US government to start a PRIVATE FREE MARKET HEALTH SYSTEM… that way my anecdotes can mean something.

5. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “YOU claim that government running an “essential service” is magically superior to a private, free market system.”

   Yes, taking the middle man and his profit margin out of the equation makes it a better, cheaper system. Doctors aren’t beholden to some insurance company.

   While pregnant, Allie, who posts on TikTok as @theseaowl44, went to the hospital in “excruciating pain,” she said in a video. After initially being sent home by a doctor who said she was having pain from a urinary tract infection and the baby sitting on her bladder, she returned to the hospital to learn she was suffering from appendicitis. She was sent to a bigger hospital in St. Louis, where she had emergency surgery. Her son survived the surgery but died the next day after she delivered him.About 45 minutes later, Allie suffered a pulmonary embolism and had to have an emergency dilation and curettage (D&C) to remove the placenta, nearly dying in the process. It was after all of this that she learned she had been sent to a hospital that was out of network. “We ended up with a bill from the hospital that was more than what we paid for the home that we live in, and it was going to take probably, I don’t know, 20 to 30 years to pay off this hospital bill,” Allie said. “We opted to have to file bankruptcy, but not before I exhausted every appeal with [insurance company] Cigna — I wrote letters, I spilled my heart out, I talked on the phone, I explained our situation and our story, thinking surely someone would understand this was not my fault. On the third and final appeal, because they only allow you three, Cigna’s appeal physician told me, point blank, it was my fault that when I was dying from a ruptured appendix in the ER, that I didn’t check and make sure that the hospital I was being sent to by ambulance was in my insurance network.”

6. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Wow, you finally clued in, Canadians pay taxes and get services (healthcare in this example) with no co-pay, no administration fees, no out of pocket expenses, no denial.

7. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “because YOUR implied claim that the U.S. is a free market health care system is FALSE. As I said, it’s HEAVILY controlled and regulated.”

   Wrong, I’m implying that private health insurance is a scam.

8. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “the Soviet Union in favor of government collectivization (ie NATIONALIZATION, which you obviously are in favor of), the result was mass starvation and death.”

   Irrelevant to our discussion, the rest is your opinion based on nothing more than speculation and weak reasoning.

9. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “Wilson died not long after in 2007. He might have lived under truly private health care.”

   Don’t kid yourself, he would have been denied coverage, died and his family would be bankrupt.

10. 3 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    One in every 10 Americans has outstanding medical debt. (Health System Tracker)

    Every year, 530,000 American families file for bankruptcy due to medical bills. (Nasdaq)

    US medical bills are a major reason behind filing for bankruptcy for 59% of Americans. (Investopedia)

    On average, Americans spend about $10,000 a year on healthcare costs. (Debt)

    72% of all medical debt in the US comes from one-time medical issues. (Kaiser Family Foundation)

    Most US citizens with medical debt owe between $1,000 and $2,500. (Kaiser Family Foundation)