astonishing to watch people lose their minds at the prospect of a little social democracy
people are dying because they can't afford basic medical care, college becomes more inaccessible with every year, and the planet is roasting. get some fucking perspective
in December I talked to a woman who's had to skip her insulin, can't afford a surgery she needs, and worries that her teenage son could lose his mother because her union-busting employer won't give her better insurance nymag.com/intelligencer/…
I get Google alerts every day for insulin rationing and deaths by insulin rationing so I don't miss a single one. I've been keeping track since I wrote about the death of Shane Boyle in 2017 newrepublic.com/article/141651…
My mom has Type 2 diabetes. Fortunately, she isn't insulin-dependent. But she went without insurance for years because she couldn't afford it. Late last year my dad told me we had to figure out a way to make the payments because "I don't want to lose my wife."
We figured it out and got her on an Obamacare plan, so crisis averted. Lucky us? Maybe Chris Matthews would like to chip in if something goes south
I hate relating everything back to my own personal experience but it is so clear, every single day, how few professional pundits and political journalists have any idea what it's like to worry about this. And it makes me sick sometimes, it really does.
being in the UK and using the NHS remains the first and only experience I've had with a health care system that viewed me as a human being instead of a walking financial liability
