• oakey66@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    12 hours ago

    It’s not shocking if you’ve had to deal with any sort of healthcare in this god forsaken shithole of a country.

        • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          10 hours ago

          Are many young people (25 or younger) actually involved in their parents finances? How many parents would actually speak to their younger kids about their medical/health care issues?

          • oakey66@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            9 hours ago

            20+ year olds helping their parents navigate the healthcare hellscape is something that is actually fairly common. My mother-in-law is a hospital social worker.

          • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            edit-2
            9 hours ago

            You should hope you never have to experience a parent suffer the health care system… mentally or physically. Assuming you’re not a monster you’d likely have a different opinion right now. It’s stupid to assume it’s like a parent telling a toddler how they file taxes…

            I saw my mother constantly get denied health care because her insurance wouldn’t cover her arthritis which was considered a “pre-existing condition”.

            I saw her suffer trying to get medication for migraines every month while Merck said nope.

            I saw democrats get rid of preexisting conditions with passage of ACA. I saw republicans lie about ACA claiming it’s economic demise…

            Demise never happened and republicans never once proposed anything better…

            So naturally…

            I saw my mom deny that any of this ever happened a few years later, that democrats never helped anyone and then she advocated for trump. I’ve seen her and others say democrats are the problem.

            I’ve seen a lot of weird shit…