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OT Hot take, I think steve rogers (captain america) should be black.

You ever seen cap's first avengers appearance, where they unfreeze him on the submarine and call him an imposter so he says "test me" and thor throws his hammer at him? On a submarine, because i guess thor forgot depressurization kills humans.

Well, i have this idea: cap goes into the ice and disappears for 80 years, right? But the legend of cap never goes away, people keep talking about him and idolizing him. Now, the US is hella racist, just facts, and the drug that gives cap his powers is experimental. So, what if... the military didnt want to test that shit on white people, so they tested it on a black person, and that black person was steve rogers, not isaiah bradley?

During the war, the gov downplays the fact that their super soldier is black, and then after the war they just retcon it. Cap is white, cap was always white, of course he was white, why wouldn't he have been white? So 80s years later everyone just assumes cap was some white dude. Then, when the avengers unfreeze him, he's black, and the avengers don't believe he is who he says he is, because everyone knows cap was white.

Steve, being a black man from the 40s, has heard all this racist shit before, and just says, "don't believe me? Then put me to the test."

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You start talking "risk pools" and people's eyes roll over white and they just want to hear "cheaper". Never mind that "cheaper" under Trump/Vance will mean, "Here's a band aid, that'll be $250 and, oh, BTW, you've hit your lifetime cap so from now until you die (probably sooner than you would otherwise, so that's some savings right there, ha ha!) you've got the delicious freedom to pay for everything out of pocket! YOU'RE in the driver's seat! You have the CHOICE to pay or the FREEDOM to go without. Congrats, Freedom Friend, we've Kept America Great!"

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I had inflammatory breast cancer two years ago. It was aggressive, but I had an excellent response to chemo, so it hopefully knows better than to come back. I also learned that I have a genetic mutation that raises my risk of developing breast cancer. I’m currently on Medical Assistance and SSDI, and I’m hoping to transition off them one day for a “real job.” But if pre-existing conditions come back I will have to stay on Medical Assistance, because I can’t afford to lose access to my care team, and there’s simply no way any insurer would willingly take me on.

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Yes, but what about the moral hazard? If you don't need to pay a heavy price for it, what's to stop you from growing old?

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i type this as i'm renewing my ACA navigator license - which i've had since 2013.

most rewarding work i've ever done (if just SLIGHTLY better paying than theatre...). also fuck you JD Vance.

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If you are over 65, and the rapist wins, and you end up with any health issue worse than a papercut, you may as well spend your remaining money on a gun and shoot yourself, because you will GO BANKRUPT. Quicker and less painful than starving to death on the sidewalk.

But they don't see this because pronouns and moms from Honduras are scarier.

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Do you mean "under 65"? People over 65 get Medicare.

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True, but I'm guessing ending Medicare will be a Rapist 2.0 goal--

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Great. Two years till I am eligible.

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I'm on the exchange. I'm retired but not old enough for Medicare. It costs me $112.00 per month!! Is the insurance company or my providers losing money? Certainly not!

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why is it their answer to everything is deregulation? are they just lazy or stupid?

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Stupid, they don't have a clue what that really means or the horrendous impacts that would have on normal citizens. They just like the word! They think it makes them sound smart

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Neither. Regulations mean they can't get away with whatever the fuck they feel like because it will make them more money and fuck over the poors even harder. Therefore they are against them. That's it in a nutshell.

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Before the ACA, I was one of those young and healthy people. My state had only one choice for insurance and it was the worst: Anthem BCBS. The first time I needed their services, they denied my claim. So even for us young and healthy, health insurance was the same scam it is today

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Calm Down People! As our lifespans get shorter and shorter healthcare will become less and less of an issue.

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Pre-ACA, I was paying about $1200 a month for private insurance due to pre-existing conditions. Never want to go back there. Fuck the GOP and their worthless concepts of plans.

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"Science is.... Whatever we want it to be."

OR;

"Boy, it's crazy to think we used to settle questions of paternity by dunking a woman in water until she admitted she made it all up. Different time, the '60s."

- Dr. Leo Spaceman

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We all know that the Republican health care plan is essentially the same as it was in 2009 when congressman Alan Grayson said it amounted to this:

1) Don't get sick

2) If you do get sick, die quickly

He also correctly identified and publicly called out the racist malaise infecting the Republican party 11 years ago:

𝘐𝘯 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 2013, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘶 𝘒𝘭𝘶𝘹 𝘒𝘭𝘢𝘯. 𝘐𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 "𝘛" 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺. 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵 𝘎𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦-𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘴 "𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘺". 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 "𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘒𝘒 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯."

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“the best way to do that is to actually promote more choice in our health-care system ”

Choice overwhelms most people trying to decide on insurance. Given how opaque healthcare care costs are in the U.S., there’s no real way to decide on how much difference a higher deductible plan with a lower premium will cost versus a lower deductible plan with a higher premium.

Honestly, how dumb is Vance? 65 year olds were taken out of the private insurance risk pool by Medicare, in 1965. This was part of Medicare’s selling point that helped it pass.

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Back to the Paul Ryan 'just die already' plan.

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I am starting to get the distinct impression that a second trump term might not be good thing.

I was almost wrong about something once before, but it seems that way.

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