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Whatever your politics, we should endeavor to stop giving oxygen to rhetoric that misstates easily verifiable facts * Your comparison between Portugal's socia

Whatever your politics, we should endeavor to stop giving oxygen to rhetoric that misstates easily verifiable facts * Your comparison between Portugal's social security system and the US's includes only one source of support, but several are available. (Cost of housing is one.) Neglecting this easily-verifiable fact has the same misinformational outcome as lying. * "Medicaid has extremely low out-of-pocket costs" is not a reply to "we didn't pay a fucking cent". Your (not-included) estimates of how much money a US resident definitely will have to pay is by definition never going to be as good as zero. It's almost like you're setting out to smooth over this also-easily-verifiable fact with "rhetoric".

leereeves 6y ago
> Your comparison between Portugal's social security system and the US's includes only one source of support, but several are available. Several sources of support are available in the US as well, including food stamps, medicaid, and housing assistance.
edbob 6y ago
> "Medicaid has extremely low out-of-pocket costs" is not a reply to "we didn't pay a fucking cent". Your (not-included) estimates of how much money a US resident definitely will have to pay is by definition never going to be as good as zero. It's almost like you're setting out to smooth over this also-easily-verifiable fact with "rhetoric". This reasoning is absurd. If I have to pay $10/mo in the US, but I make $100/mo more in the US, then I'm still up $90/mo. No one cares about "not paying a fucking cent" if "not paying" actually means "I'm $90/mo poorer".