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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jan 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Medium

    What's amazing to me is that there are people who defend this insane system. Some of those people even do it for free and not because they are hired shills.https://twitter.com/Medium/status/1223257205333544962 …

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    A cancer diagnosis nearly bankrupted them. They were left with a terrible choice: face financial ruin from the medical bills, or avoid it by getting a divorce. (via @genmag) http://read.medium.com/rRVAYlB 
    6:53 AM - 31 Jan 2020
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      1. Mike Branom‏ @mbranom 31 Jan 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Hey, we've got Average Joes caping for billionaires, so why not have people one illness away from bankruptcy defending the healthcare system?

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      1. Chance Gardener‏ @ChanceBGardener 31 Jan 2020
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        Very important that the middle class not have its assets squandered by old age—what will they have to pass on?—is unusual at the Nation, isn’t it?

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      1. Oboe‏ @EoboOboe 31 Jan 2020
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        These systems persist because people have an intuitive sense that denying care to the “undeserving” is a good thing in itself, makes *my* care better, and that these “outlier” situations will never hurt me or mine. Like how your 30% credit card rate funds my “points.”

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      1. Brian‏ @bdpall 31 Jan 2020
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        Ideology is a helluva drug

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      1. Doyenne de Disport‏ @disportif 31 Jan 2020
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        It’s 💯 tribalism. @ezraklein covers it quite extensively.

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      1. Glenn Fleishman‏Verified account @GlennF 31 Jan 2020
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        Live fee or die.

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      1. KayD-B‏ @erzulieloo 31 Jan 2020
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        I'm not altogether sure I'd even be willing to go through treatment because I'd fear the overwhelming bills I'd leave for my family if I died.

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      1.  🌻Ken Golden 🧡 ☸️‏ @kengolden8 31 Jan 2020
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        Right?? For some it seems like Stockholm Syndrome writ large, sympathizing with our broken healthcare system while labeling anyone a socialist or libtard who questions it or says affordable healthcare should be a basic right😫😫😫

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      1. Russ S‏ @lack_of_energy 31 Jan 2020
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        Slightly off topic, but a divorce also increases financial aid for your children.

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      1. AM‏ @AM92042755 31 Jan 2020
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        Are you sure you're not amazed solutions along your proposed lines tend to be rejected by public opinion when proposed and debated?

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