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Gonna gently suggest to you that someone who can go "I'll put $10k in escrow for a few decades over an internet comment" perhaps may struggle to understand the

Gonna gently suggest to you that someone who can go "I'll put $10k in escrow for a few decades over an internet comment" perhaps may struggle to understand the desperation of someone with a disabling chronic illness to get access to medical treatment. (And their lack of means to match such a bet, no matter their confidence in the position.)

toomuchtodo 1y ago
On the contrary, I financially support several people who are disabled and will never work again (to bridge them until they qualify for age tested benefits). I bought a piece of land in the Midwest, and am building tiny homes for them one by one. I previously did a short stint as a Guardian ad Litem in Florida for disadvantaged children who needed an independent advocate, and I act as a patient advocate today for folks who need healthcare and have a hard time accessing it. My deceased mother could not claim Social Security disability while genuinely disabled, and I was first hand involved in the process to see how the system is built to prevent entitled beneficiaries from claiming disability benefits up to her early death at 60. I am resourced (out of luck), but also high empathy and intimately familiar with the struggles you mention. The bet isn't only because I can afford it, but because I am so familiar with the data I know I'm right. This is why I am for universal healthcare, see no other path forward, and I hope this better explains the mental model my arguments in this context are based upon.
- ceejayoz 1y ago
  > The bet isn't only because I can afford it, but because I am so familiar with the data I know I'm right. I mean, same position here. I just don't have $10k to sit in escrow for years. I've similarly got plenty of first-hand experience; one on Medicare and one on Medicaid in the family due to disability, and even with those and a reasonably well paying job we'd absolutely consider moving for a program as described. Data-wise, we've already got quite a bit demonstrating that California's better-than-average social services are more attractive to homeless folks, to the point where they have ~25% of the country's population of them. I'm also for universal healthcare. I just don't think doing it unilaterally at the state-level is likely to work very well with freedom of movement between states, as with gun control.

toomuchtodo 1y ago

On the contrary, I financially support several people who are disabled and will never work again (to bridge them until they qualify for age tested benefits). I bought a piece of land in the Midwest, and am building tiny homes for them one by one. I previously did a short stint as a Guardian ad Litem in Florida for disadvantaged children who needed an independent advocate, and I act as a patient advocate today for folks who need healthcare and have a hard time accessing it. My deceased mother could not claim Social Security disability while genuinely disabled, and I was first hand involved in the process to see how the system is built to prevent entitled beneficiaries from claiming disability benefits up to her early death at 60. I am resourced (out of luck), but also high empathy and intimately familiar with the struggles you mention. The bet isn't only because I can afford it, but because I am so familiar with the data I know I'm right. This is why I am for universal healthcare, see no other path forward, and I hope this better explains the mental model my arguments in this context are based upon.

ceejayoz 1y ago
> The bet isn't only because I can afford it, but because I am so familiar with the data I know I'm right. I mean, same position here. I just don't have $10k to sit in escrow for years. I've similarly got plenty of first-hand experience; one on Medicare and one on Medicaid in the family due to disability, and even with those and a reasonably well paying job we'd absolutely consider moving for a program as described. Data-wise, we've already got quite a bit demonstrating that California's better-than-average social services are more attractive to homeless folks, to the point where they have ~25% of the country's population of them. I'm also for universal healthcare. I just don't think doing it unilaterally at the state-level is likely to work very well with freedom of movement between states, as with gun control.