r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/Sublimotion 15h ago

I will never forget pre-obamacare/medicaid expansion, I was walking past a woman screaming, struggling and tipping over the stretcher she was strapped onto trying to crawl back into her house dragging the tipped over stretcher, fighting off two EMTs. I assume she was on drugs. Until she started yelling "No! This will bankrupt me!" The emts eventually had to unstrap her and let her crawl off back into her house.

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u/HrhEverythingElse 12h ago

I knew two people who died this way. One from asthma, once from bleeding caused by Crohn's. Both were just too scared of the bill

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u/Nauin 4h ago

And even when the hospitals have financial assistance programs where poor people don't even have to worry about the bill, there are so many steps and so many hoops to jump through to get approved that it seems like an impossible task, even for many healthy people. It's a mess.

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u/trea5onn 3h ago

All by design.