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This is just terrible system. They barely make anything and yet no benefits. Sometime it is best just to stay unemployed and let the government take care of t

This is just terrible system. They barely make anything and yet no benefits. Sometime it is best just to stay unemployed and let the government take care of them.

throwaway2048 7y ago
This is the part that is so screwed up about there not being a universal public option in the USA. A universal public option already exists!, you just have to quit your job, and sell your house, and with a chronic condition remain completely destitute for the rest of your life. How does that situation benefit anyone? Why not just let people work, have a life, and contribute to society, rather than demanding they remain poor for the grave sin of having medical issues.
- minniser 7y ago
  I have a strange gut condition in which my doctor agrees with me that having a job that pays me would be very good for my health, possibly allowing me to actually heal, but I cannot lose my health insurance because without my medication I cannot digest any food. The physical problems all began during depression from losing my job, and symptoms often subside when I do volunteer work or help family members with things and just feel useful. But it has been 2 years and I have not found another job that will give me health insurance. I can get freelance work sometimes so that is helpful and hopeful, but I actually have to be very careful not to make so much that I lose health insurance. This makes me very useless and unable to contribute to my family who has helped me out so much in this time. It is a constant misery, yet I am a tremendously able worker who loves to work, even very long hours. I am not sure how legal it is for me to even have health insurance, but I have no shame either way. That would be laughable to worry about for anybody in my situation. Working hard in American has never been materially appreciated in my experiences. This country is completely broken. You only want dishonest people who say and act in ways ways that make you feel happy. No respect for human dignity. Everything is salesmanship, and value is a measure of abstract emotional signaling. What should we expect? It is hardly ironic. It’s what this society has been asking for as long as I have been alive.
  - skinnymuch 7y ago
    I assume you know this. Have an LLC in a trusted person’s name and ask to be paid via that and use the LLC tax ID when freelancing.
    - eee_honda 7y ago
      What is the net benefit of classifying as an employee of this LLC?
  - perl4ever 7y ago
    I currently work for a temp agency, and they allow you to sign up for health insurance after a few months.
- krapp 7y ago
  >Why not just let people work, have a life, and contribute to society, rather than demanding they remain poor for the grave sin of having medical issues. Because the US is a capitalist society which has an almost pathological revulsion for socialism and welfare in any form, where poverty is simply the result of you being too lazy to bootstrap yourself into wealth, and where healthcare isn't a right, but a privilege.
  - perl4ever 7y ago
    Capitalism is just a word and has no opinions nor most of the implications people claim. The problem is more that a lot of people are deeply convinced of something like social Darwinism, that if you are sick you must be inferior, and a leech, and can't believe that there is a benefit to society in assisting.

This is just terrible system. They barely make anything and yet no benefits. Sometime it is best just to stay unemployed and let the government take care of them.

throwaway2048 7y ago

This is the part that is so screwed up about there not being a universal public option in the USA. A universal public option already exists!, you just have to quit your job, and sell your house, and with a chronic condition remain completely destitute for the rest of your life. How does that situation benefit anyone? Why not just let people work, have a life, and contribute to society, rather than demanding they remain poor for the grave sin of having medical issues.

minniser 7y ago
I have a strange gut condition in which my doctor agrees with me that having a job that pays me would be very good for my health, possibly allowing me to actually heal, but I cannot lose my health insurance because without my medication I cannot digest any food. The physical problems all began during depression from losing my job, and symptoms often subside when I do volunteer work or help family members with things and just feel useful. But it has been 2 years and I have not found another job that will give me health insurance. I can get freelance work sometimes so that is helpful and hopeful, but I actually have to be very careful not to make so much that I lose health insurance. This makes me very useless and unable to contribute to my family who has helped me out so much in this time. It is a constant misery, yet I am a tremendously able worker who loves to work, even very long hours. I am not sure how legal it is for me to even have health insurance, but I have no shame either way. That would be laughable to worry about for anybody in my situation. Working hard in American has never been materially appreciated in my experiences. This country is completely broken. You only want dishonest people who say and act in ways ways that make you feel happy. No respect for human dignity. Everything is salesmanship, and value is a measure of abstract emotional signaling. What should we expect? It is hardly ironic. It’s what this society has been asking for as long as I have been alive.
- skinnymuch 7y ago
  I assume you know this. Have an LLC in a trusted person’s name and ask to be paid via that and use the LLC tax ID when freelancing.
  - eee_honda 7y ago
    What is the net benefit of classifying as an employee of this LLC?
- perl4ever 7y ago
  I currently work for a temp agency, and they allow you to sign up for health insurance after a few months.
krapp 7y ago
>Why not just let people work, have a life, and contribute to society, rather than demanding they remain poor for the grave sin of having medical issues. Because the US is a capitalist society which has an almost pathological revulsion for socialism and welfare in any form, where poverty is simply the result of you being too lazy to bootstrap yourself into wealth, and where healthcare isn't a right, but a privilege.
- perl4ever 7y ago
  Capitalism is just a word and has no opinions nor most of the implications people claim. The problem is more that a lot of people are deeply convinced of something like social Darwinism, that if you are sick you must be inferior, and a leech, and can't believe that there is a benefit to society in assisting.