go look at real medical bills. the argument doesn't need nuance or intelligence anymore. it's really simple: you don't fuck millions of people over while as a senator, you fly to canada or israel for affordable healthcare:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/16/americans-medical-debt/

but it's NOT in the employer's best interest to screw over the employees.... IF they have a genuine desire to keep their reputation so they can hire the best employees in the future.

it might be best interest in terms of SHORT TERM financial gain, which, too, is a problem.

forgetting about the free market, there is a real, visible problem: Young folks who can't get insulin really do drop dead every year.

Should government really be able to step in and save its dying young citizens? By just straight up buying them some insulin, without waiting for the paperwork or the insurance to kick in at a new job?

some donut shop owners get some type of benefits for their employees, too.

it's interesting you think that is weird. DONUTS!?

and that's my point. It IS weird that one might expect ANY EMPLOYER to have to deal with their employee's insulin supply, and that there can be a real consequence if, say, the donut shop closes for good.

yeah, and you should read the context of this discussion, which is Insurance.

did you also believe that I was arguing that donut shop owners should be able to kill people and commit fraud and sell heroin as long as they are in their shop?

yes, because i was so talking about child labor.

i'm talking about being able to fire anyone you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about whether the person you fired has enough insulin to last them.

my point is that temple should do whatever the hell they want. just like bob's donuts should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want.

why are people always getting angry at the wrong person? You had the people to blame. The ones that could have fixed this decades ago and chose not to fix it. In fact, if they really, really, really wanted to, they could fix it this month.

If Temple are the pricks, then what were our past senators who controlled trillions of dollars that are refreshed each year?

what about the donut shop around my corner. They raised prices and it hurt me. Are they pricks too? Why can't they simply hire 1,000 more people tonight to help us with our medical problems?

Temple is their own organization, with limited budget and priorities and goals. They should do whatever they want.

your Senator controls trillions of dollars and works for you. Those trillions get refreshed every single year. Your senator should be working on universal healthcare tonight. They should literally sit down and work on it today.

Instead, senators are whining about how Bezos is mistreating his employees. As if Bezos should give up all his wealth to give everyone healthcare for a year. But then he lost all his money, so it would only last one year.

they care about us, so they must certainly be working on it right now... right? i mean, it's important enough to lock yourselves in until you come up with a solution.

they said it was right wing. i said it could also be left. it's both. that's the reality, which is more complex than black/white.

sorry with the silliness. 100% of cyclists who hate ebikes must be Right wing until proven otherwise.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bikedc/comments/a2ug7n/ebike_discrimination/

this is real shit. is it really that surprising?

read r/fuckcars and see their tweets. probably just due to auto industry lobbyists. but generally, many republicans oppose anything that makes cities more walkable, healthier, greener, etc.

but at the same time, a lot of far-right people are the ones on e-bikes. they are poorer, not worried about electricity consumption and they are "bros" in the jobs that use ebikes more, such as delivery.

a lot of far left folks don't like ebikes. they still use electricity and create tons of waste. they get in the way of walkability, which should be the first priority.

even banning all cars from manhattan is sensible and perfectly reasonable if you consider health, cancer, asthma, climate change, sustainability, politics of oil, aesthetics, walkability and fairness, property value. Not to mention, the million+ car-related deaths per year around the world. 1 Billion car-related serious injuries or deaths per century.