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What does it say about our ability to stem the spread coronavirus that someone *who has insurance* is punished with thousands of dollars of medical bills for the sin of getting tested? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
You know what people in other industrialized countries don't have to worry about?

Getting massive medical bills for trying to do the responsible thing by getting tested for highly contagious diseases that we're trying to stop from spreading.
People in other comparable countries also don't have to worry about getting arrested, humiliated, and pushed to the brink when they can't afford to pay massive medical bills features.propublica.org/medical-debt/w…
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Trump’s decision not to divest from his businesses allowed him to bring in $434 million in personal revenue in 2018, and the Secret Service has spent at least as much taxpayer money at his resorts as he has donated in salary.

On the other hand, he gave $100k to HHS.

Hero.
Oh ffs
Future presidents should tweet pictures of their paychecks and say, "Hey I'm keeping this because I'm not drawing hundreds of millions in personal revenue from private resorts that special interests are using to curry favor with my administration while personally enriching me"
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Robert Maguire @ #NICAR20
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This is a meaningless gimic.

President Trump's decision not to divest his businesses netted him $434 million in personal revenue in 2018 alone—the last year for which data is available. That's a thousand times more than his presidential salary.
And Trump's donation of his taxpayer-funded salary is more than canceled out by the taxpayer money spent at his businesses by the federal government washingtonpost.com/politics/secre…
uh...I was using "gimic" as an acronym, Alex. Everyone knows it means "Grifting Irritates Me and and Impairs the Country" ;)
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Robert Maguire @ #NICAR20
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I'm about to drill a hole in our marble kitchen countertop. How much am I going to regret this on a scale of 1 to 10?
Update: The hole drilling was easy peasy (in your face, naysayers!), but now -- as seems always to be the case -- I have to address another project entirely before I can do the thing I actually wanted to do.
Oh and, yeah, this is granite. Not marble.
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Just a few words on this ridiculous position, from me, who grew up in America under American "health care" and what this would mean for our NHS.
The leading cause of bankruptcy in America is medical bills.
In America getting sick can and very often means you end up homeless.
In America, because healthcare is for profit there is no option of generic drugs. If we have to negotiate with America for drugs the prices will *not* go down. People in America have been dying because they cannot afford their insulin and they are rationing it.
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My friend @AdyBarkan has "good" health insurance, but it's not nearly enough. Every month, he has thousands of dollars in medical bills that his insurer won't cover. His wife Rachael spends hours every week arguing with their insurer. That's time she can't spend with Ady.
@AdyBarkan The basic profit model of an insurance company is to bring in as much money as they can in premiums and pay out as little as possible in health care coverage. We like our doctors and our nurses—but I've never met anyone who actually likes their insurance company.
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Thanks, @ScottMadin, because I’m now thinking about how the McDonald’s “hot coffee” case is perhaps the best example of propaganda in the 20th century.
How did you learn about the hot coffee case? Cause I’ll tell you how I did: I learned that it was an example of stupid people filing frivolous lawsuits because they were too dumb not to do things wrong. Eg: “Duh, coffee is hot."
If that’s still your narrative, well. Look it up. I was told that the lady was driving with it, splashed a little on herself, and sued McDonald’s.

I’ve had hot coffee spilled on me (by a flight attendant). It hurts, but all it did was make my arm red for a couple days.
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