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> If you can't pay for it yourself, you're looking for charity. I hope you don't believe in Karma, because you're tempting fate. I doubt you'd strike the same

> If you can't pay for it yourself, you're looking for charity. I hope you don't believe in Karma, because you're tempting fate. I doubt you'd strike the same tune if you or your loved ones had a severe and/or chronic illness that threatened to bankrupt you through no fault of your own. Also, in the US, your health insurance is probably tied to your employment. Expecting someone to stay at the same job (on the same insurance) for the rest of their life after learning about some illness, and calling anyone who isn't able to do this a charity-seeker, is asshole behavior.

GCSAQCMIYI_2 7y ago
And I hope you'll take this exchange as a wake-up call to how your sensitivity on the topic is affecting your ability to think about it clearly. I'm not criticizing anyone. I'm stating a fact. Someone in the position I described is looking for charity. How you feel about the situation doesn't affect that. >Expecting someone to stay at the same job (on the same insurance) for the rest of their life after learning about some illness, and calling anyone who isn't able to do this a charity-seeker, is asshole behavior. Suggesting that needing charity due to circumstances outside of your control is shameful seems like the real "asshole behavior", which, if you think about it, is exactly what you are doing. I'm not criticizing anyone for needing charity. I'm pointing out that's what it is. I'm pointing it out to demonstrate that health insurance companies are acting like charitable foundations and filling their pockets while doing so, and their customers are getting robbed to pay for it.