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In reply to the discussion: ANYONE concerned about the shifting polls needs to listen to Keith Olbermann today... [View all]PatrickforB
(15,025 posts)from Dems all over the USA asking for money, not to mention other charities because, hey, it's 'giving' season. I just don't have any more to give.
Why? Because I have HEALTH CARE DEBT. No shit. I SHOULD be doing better than I ever have financially in my life, but NO, NOPE, we still have shitty, rationed, profit-driven healthcare with financially crippling copays. AND, don't get me started on dental, because the ACA forgot all about teeth. I guess they aren't important - only they fucking ARE. And getting your teeth fixed costs an arm and a leg, and even if you are 'lucky' enough to have Delta Dental, their best plan pays $1500 up front and then the rest is on YOU. That is ONE fucking tooth. So speaking of dental insurance, we REALLY have shitty, rationed care with financially crippling copays.
And then I will be 66 and plan to retire maybe sometime in my 67th year if I can swing it, and have you even looked at how HARD, how COMPLICATED it is to apply for Medicare? All the so-called Wall Street driven 'Advantage' plans are overbilling the government, and the supplement plan and the drug donut plan...shit. I mean, those poor people that WERE covered under the Humana Advantage Plan - it withdrew from a bunch of place where it 'isn't PROFITABLE.' I'm an economist and crunch numbers for a living but this is damned HARD to figure out.
Sigh. So, yeah, no surprise that the polls are profit driven too! God knows, we don't have enough PROFITS! And those poor widdle billionnaires just don't have enough money! They need a nice tax cut at our expense, and heck, we working schmucks will just have to suck it up and eat out of dumpsters once we can't work anymore. Because of the weight of the greed of the few that has been driving this whole fucking thing for decades.
Wall Street, shareholder primacy capitalism and the billionaire parasites ruin everything they get their hands on. Look at Google. It USED to be a good search engine. Now it is a great PROFIT generating engine that is increasingly hard to use for actual research.
Fuck. Fucking Wall Street. Fucking billionaires. Fuck!
OK, rant over.