And just like that its over

Praise God the shutdown is over. I don't think we could handle serving over 200 meals 3 days a week forever finacially or sanity wise. It was decided tonight we will serve one more meal fri night but tonight we actually was down quite a bit because our state started sending out partial ebt benefits yesterday. A friend of mine said she was shocked cause shes not even scheduled to get hers for another week and a half and she got hers. It might also been cause ppl were at their own church tonight.

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SomeMichGuy · M

It might not be over.

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SomeMichGuy · M

@Mountainlady16 Obamacare was the market-based thing which could be passed.

If we were like every other Westernized country, we'd be saving half of our healthcare costs or more with a single-payer system.

That would take a huge burden off of small businesses and make employees much more independent of a given employer. The Republicans changed the law to give us "managed" healthcare under Reagan, and you see the results all around us. If you don't like it now, think of how much worse AI will make it.

Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F

@SomeMichGuy and if we had single payer the government decide who lives and dies and ppl get sicker while waiting for permission to be treated

SomeMichGuy · M

@Mountainlady16 Nope.

But you think corporations and AI should deny you as you pay 2x what the next-most expensive country pays, with WORSE outcomes?

We could save a lot by undoing the Reagan-era HMOs and letting doctors control patient treatment. Capitalism in healthcare in the US has cost us way too much and made employees slaves to jobs...

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