If you’re looking at my account, it likely means I upset you and you’re a moron/retard. It doesn’t matter how much you argue, you’re still wrong and you’re still a fucking moron. If you’re reading this, you know who you are.

Lemmy appears to have a special breed of retards.

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  • People without insurance die, even from easily preventable things. Then it bogs down the entire health care system because this small thing festers or gets worse. The person is taken to the ED, sometimes by EMS, using up resources. Then they spend hours in the ED being treated and using up hospital resources. Some go home, some have to be admitted taking up a bed and using more hospital resources.

    Then, depending on the issue they could die. I’d want to throw in other options like SNF, ALF, LTC, or Rehab facility, but that requires insurance authorization or money, something people without insurance don’t have.

    So no instead of using tax payer money to give people health care and get preventative treatment, we spend significantly more tax payer money on EMS and hospital resources.

    The same argument, which has been tested and validated, can be said about it being cheaper to give the homeless a free small apartment.








  • Not really a theory, when it’s been proven true. Many retirees are moving to low CoL areas because their social security and or retirement funds can’t keep up. Lower income people will move if they are able to.

    There are jobs that pop up in these areas, but on average the income is significantly less. For example Tennessee will pay new grad nurses $22 an hour. That’s one of the lowest wages for a bedside nurse. Not enough to live in the city where a hospital is located. I think it was Alabama that passed a state law that prohibited cities from raising the minimum wage for jobs in the city. Jobs in most of these areas pay poverty wages.

    I used to live in Florida and when looking at the average the CoL is lower than my new state Oregon. Yet after moving and living here for a year I pay less on car and home insurance, property taxes, and no sales tax. Sure I might pay a tiny bit more in income tax but my salary is 30% higher for the same job. My wife’s is 45% higher for the same job.

    Not to mention “average” means nothing when rural hick areas are lowering the entire state. Many parts of Florida have a higher cost than most other cities.