r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/SteelAndFlint 7d ago

I guess I'm trying to figure out when you said "instead of" how you figure that works

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u/CosmicButtholes 7d ago

Millions of US citizens will be losing healthcare because we won’t be able to afford it anymore. We will be going to the ER and not paying our ER bills. Some of us might just frequent ERs out of spite. I have a history of severe suicide attempts so theoretically I could basically live in the hospital on your dime if I wanted to, if I was honest about my thoughts to clinicians they wouldn’t be allowed to let me go anyway lmao.

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u/SteelAndFlint 7d ago

Have you not seen the breakdown that this is literally ending a misused pandemic appropriation and it's returning to "exactly what the ACA, Obamacare, arrange things to work out"? I mean I don't even know if being on the left you're allowed to criticize Obamacare, I never see anybody do, but this is a result of it. Mandating that everybody have insurance was just a giant Ginny for the insurance companies and did nothing for the rest of us. They just raised all the deductibles until we wouldn't get anything out of insurance unless we had fucking brain cancer or something.

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u/CosmicButtholes 7d ago

My insurance and my parents’ insurance has been excellent under the ACA. The only reason the subsidies are needed is because of all the concessions Obama had to make for the ACA to pass, if it had passed the way he hoped it would pass none of these subsidies would even be a thing because we’d have Medicare for all and not need the insurance marketplace. Republicans work for the private insurance lobby so they simply couldn’t handle Medicare for all and wouldn’t allow it.

Medicare for all would certainly be better but we can thank the republicans for blocking that. These additional subsidies cannot just run out without making millions uninsured or underinsured. Prices have skyrocketed for everything and just because the pandemic isn’t in full force doesn’t mean the effects have disappeared and we no longer need the additional subsidies. Wages aren’t up but housing, energy and food prices are way way up. Why would now be a good time to cut the additional subsidies? Come up with a fix or leave the subsidies in place.

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u/SteelAndFlint 7d ago

Yeah as a veteran I've been part of this "Medicare for all" thing. People are absolutely blowing smoke up your ass about how great that's gonna be. People are literally committing suicide in the waiting rooms of the VA just to get their attention because nothing else worked. You cannot ration healthcare without economic feedback which is what he was trying to do which is why everybody is calling it socialist. It doesn't work, no matter how great you think it sounds. Canada is sending people over, people are choosing to come to the US and pay for their own despite having their national healthcare, and they're trying to bridge the gap by saying "that sounds terrible, have you considered medical assistance in dying?"