Here's a breaking update on numbers of people who have lost their health insurance as a result of COVID-19, by country.

@SW-User I think if you lose your job you qualify for another insurance ( cobra or something) until Medi-Cal starts!

We agree on something..

@Carazaa

@SW-User I knew we’d get there 🙂

@Budwick So its ok to name call if you are name called? You're not bigger than that?

@BiasForAction This is a person who openly supports jihad. Do you really think he's bigger than that?

@BlueMetalChick I presume that someone of that age has learned a thing or two over time

@SW-User This is accurate as shit omg

@BlueMetalChick It honestly never gets old because they keep doing it 😬

@SW-User I dont do memes, you know that, dahlin

@PTCdresser57 I'll be long dead before that happens. My heart problems are far too expensive for me to afford.

Now BlueMetalChick...if your heart problems are that bad you would be placed on disability which means now the government is paying for your care under Medicaid.

@PTCdresser57 I'm not from the USA. I'm a war refugee from Yemen. I was granted asylum. I have a deteriorating heart condition because I suffered a severe electric shock when j was a preteen.

@LvChris When you point out that taxation is theft to the government changes its name to The Government™ and charges you Taxes™.

Exactly. I wish everyone would take the time to educate theirselves to what you mentioned. Then perhaps we’d have a chance of electing people who would actually put a policy like that into effect. @BlueMetalChick

@Imsleepy amen..snicker

@CountScrofula Can you believe Bud, shows up here on a post about healthcare, changes the topic of discussion to fucking Hossein Salami, and then tells me, on my own post, that he changed the subject on, to "say something relevant or STFU."

@BlueMetalChick That's what really gets me is that like... it's not a back-and-forth exchange. You respond, and he changes the topic. You respond to that and he responds with a meme mocking you. You respond to that and he resorts to some unrelated talking point.

There's no engagement. There's just talking at you.

@CountScrofula It's shit like this that makes me wonder why I bother to care about other Americans. Apparently they don't fucking want it.

@BlueMetalChick I do.

@Harriet03 Because of how many people were wounded but survived the shooting, blood drives were held in major cities across the country to collect donations from people to provide transfusions for those who needed it. I donated some blood at the drive here in Chicago but on my way out, I got harassed by a small group of activists who claimed that I shouldn't be allowed to give blood because the shooting was at a gay bar which meant that the victims were mostly LGBT, and that they didn't need help from non-LGBT people. So they started screaming at me and telling me that I'm a homophobe.

A second group of activists, also pro-LGBT, started yelling at the first group and telling them they were insane and that the idea that a straight person shouldn't be able to donate blood to a gay person who needs a transfusion is absurd. It escalated almost to the point of physical violence until I told them that I'm not heterosexual, at which point the tension deflated like a punctured balloon and everyone felt stupid, myself included.

@BlueMetalChick Madness!

@BlueMetalChick I'm lost - when did I say dont reply ?

@MarmeeMarch I'm lost too, because we're talking on two separate comment chains.

@BlueMetalChick 💁‍♂️I guess....

@BlueVeins That's what I love so much about mathematics, it doesn't give a flying fuck what anyone believes is true or not.

@MarmeeMarch Because my chosen major is in jeopardy if I move anywhere else. I'll be forced into the military.

Besides, I want for the USA to get better, not just for my life to get better.

@MarmeeMarch Good advice, there's plenty of them!!

@BiasForAction Blow me -[big] HOMO[/big]

@IstillmissEP Yeah that's nice I didn't ask you to reiterate your point, shithead. I told you to explain to me why you referred to Obama as my "sex toy" and why you tried to change the subject to his mishandling of veteran's affairs and the opiod crisis.

@IstillmissEP Then that's half of it. The other half is why you referred to him as my sex toy when you've known since I met you in 2012 that I hate the fucking guy.

@BlueMetalChick [image deleted]
Thankfully she's classy?! 🤷‍♀️

@Harriet03 The one on the left wore it better.

@daisymay [image deleted]
✌

@Amyrakunejo I...have no idea what you're talking about. Hashtags, compound words, references to Greek mythology and British novelists. I'm thoroughly confused.

@BlueMetalChick That's okay.

I'm thoroughly exhausted by all this, and look forward to the end of it, whatever that looks like.

@ninalanyon Here in America, millions of people only have health insurance because their job pays for it. The virus has resulted in many companies laying off their workers, and that means they no longer have health insurance. So if they wanna go to the hospital they have to pay tens of thousands of dollars.

@akindheart Precisely. Instead of a ridiculous for-profit health insurance industry.

@BlueMetalChick they pay a percentage of their income which is pretty fair

@User41 At least it's something to do while stuck in quarantine.

😏

Like you wouldn’t have done it if we weren’t under quarantine...

@BlueMetalChick

@User41 Well, not at this time of day at least. I'm usually at the observatory around this period of the night.

@BlueMetalChick no I meant the insurance companies aren't bankrupt. Why is everyone losing insurance?

@Powderflask Because many people receive insurance through their employer, but with everyone being out of work, employers are revoking the benefits of their workers, either because they don't want to pay for it, or they can't.

@BlueMetalChick fair enough.

@MagnifiqueGirl LOL
No, it's among the worst in the entire developed world.

@BlueMetalChick I have heard people say that USA spends a lot of money on health care

@MagnifiqueGirl Oh yeah, more money than any other country. USA spends the most money on healthcare out of anyone. But that's because we pay essentially a private tax.

@CherryNow Same in most civilised countries!

@Carazaa A great many Americans receive health insurance through their employer. Meaning since they can't work due to the pandemic, they also have no healthcare.

@BlueMetalChick but they do qualify for cobra insurance until they get medical! In all those other countries the cities ce don’t need to worry so that’s why I think we need to just do what they do, a one payer plan for everyone, so people don’t have to worry and [b]not [/b] go to the doctor when they have corona virus! I believe this also plays a role in the death rate here! The sad thing is that many didn’t even have health insurance even with a job!

@Jackaloftheazuresand Apparently.

@Jm31xxx When exactly do I not do good work?

Other than when I'm doing yardwork because I'm lazy afffff with that shit.

@thedarkside It is still here, but Republicans are doing their best to eliminate is so over 40 million people can be uninsured again.

@Elegy I wish that were true.

@BlueMetalChick yuh