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She voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the bills (apnews.com)
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That’s true for many Americans, as rising healthcare costs leave more families with a sinking feeling after seeing the bill for surgery or medication. Heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, about half of registered voters said healthcare costs are a major problem for them and their families, up from a little more than one-third four years ago, according to a Fox News poll from September.

With party control of Congress at stake, registered voters are nearly twice as likely to say they trust Democrats over Republicans to handle healthcare, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from the same month. Those frustrations, combined with broader concerns over rising prices, have sapped support for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.

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[–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

We are the richest fucking country in the world, we need to take care of our people no matter who they voted for.

which matters for noting if you give most of it to a few people. Such vast inequality is a cancer itself. Pikety has done so much work on that for example.

i still remember listening to a interview with Yannis Varoufakis a couple years ago, who said he was driving through the US and his car needed some work done, so he'd stripped in a biggish town having breakfast and ends up talking to some guy, salt of the earth, stand up guy Yannis opined... who ended up letting it be known he was bankrupt, $160k medical debt, Yannis was aghast and said he must be upset at his governments health policies ? The dude was apparently taken aback and said bo, not at all, he blamed himself for being so poor, that he deserved it for not being successful.

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