A good friend of mine chose palliative care over treatment so his wife and kid could keep their house.
teilten dies erneut
It doesn't even take an illness. Simple unemployment and health insurance will drain your retirement savings in a heartbeat.
Florida unemployment benefits 2023+2024: Total of $3,300 over 12 weeks. ($1,100/month)
My 2020 COBRA (when you are unemployed, you can choose to continue your health/dental/vision insurance at cost) was $1,500/month. So UI didn't even cover the cost of my insurance, let alone rent, car, food, etc, etc.
Vee hat dies geteilt.
The other day someone posted that they loved US insurance because it had paid 95% of their mother's $900,000 annual bill for 10 years.
Except:
1. The $900,000 will be a massive overestimate - insurance companies make up numbers and don't pay that at all.
2. They've paid $450,000 *just to stay alive* and the insurance industry has gaslit them so much they're grateful.
For Canadians feeling smug about our Universal #Healthcare - we have to prepare to fight to keep and improve it. An old rant on what could happen in Canada.
Universal Healthcare is not enshrined as a right in our Charter of Rights. That should be corrected by our Federal government to put a huge, hopefully insurmountable barrier in front of corporations.
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CaledonMoneypit 🇨🇦 (@paulbusch@mstdn.ca)
A few days ago I engaged in some spirited discussion regarding privatization of healthcare. And doom scrolling on social media you'll find medical practitioners, pundits or concerned citizens commenting on the issue.Mastodon Canada
☠️ 🇨🇦 ☠️ Sorry to disappoint. But yeah...they got us too. 😔
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Pierre Poilievre, Canada's Trump-inspired conservative leader
Like the US president-elect, the Canadian Conservative Party leader casts himself as a victim of the elites and the media, calls for lower taxes and likes to use insults. He is poised to challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the 2025 election.Eliott Dumoulin (Le Monde)
@leonid @michelin
What should be terrifying to Canadians is that PoiLIEvre will be in power alongside Trump, who has recently called us the 51st state. With roughly 20 percent of the country being traitorous assholes who want to join the States, I fear--deeply--for Canadian sovereignty.
And for Canadians:
WHEN we are taken over by the US it will be because the Canadian people ask for it, and they'll ask for it because they will be choreographed to ask for it.
But they will.
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Vee
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