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48 points

She should not be charged in my opinion. It wasn’t a credible threat.

What the shootings has done is shown how many Americans are fed up with the current system.

You’re seeing stories from democrat and republicans.

I don’t condone the violence at all but he may have sparked a medical revolution in our country.

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12 points

See you at the barricades.

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I’m not a person who does protest but I would march for changes to our medical system. While I’ve had a positive experience, the stories I’m hearing are mind blowing. It’s beyond absurd. Even if 90% of them were false. It’s still too many horrible stories but I suspect they are mostly true.

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While I’ve had a positive experience

Let me guess, still on parents insurance or never had insurance through an employer?

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Mostly the same. My biggest headache has been some of my dependents have secondary insurance and no matter which company I’ve been with at the time, they always assume all of the do and will forget multiple times a year which are which and deny all of them claims until I talk to them because there are of course no self serve options there.

I also care for a child who is on medicaid, never any problems there. All the scary news on how I shouldn’t be able to find providers has never been an issue and they are many medical conditions.

Those are the stories I call bullshit on. They want us to be afraid of single payer so they over emphasize lack of care while ignoring the people who directly pay and actually lack care.

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Do you have any links to conservative takes on this? I know full well I am in a bubble and that’s the way I god damn like it. But in this case, knowing the universality of the sentiment would be really, umm, empowering?

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Well I am a conservative and mostly associate with conservatives. Talking to my liberal friends, their take is almost identical to my Republican friends.

I don’t think people realized how aligned everyone is on this issue.

It’s the stories that are coming out that is making people talk about this topic. Those stories were ignored until the CEO was murdered.

People denied cancer treatment. wtf.

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I live in an area so red that if you saw it you’d say it was bleeding. The people here always, and I mean always, talk about how wrong it is for someone to act as a vigilante, and murder is wrong, and the insurance companies might be not-the-best, but it’s no excuse… bla bla bla. They think the woman here is in the wrong, and don’t even care.

See the recent slew of posts about the new york times for the conservative take on the issue.

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I’ve lost several friends who couldn’t afford cancer treatments. I have one now who is looking for some help because their current insurance doesn’t cover excision of diseased organ, and open enrollment is over.

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Saying (paraphrased) “you’re next” is not a threat. It’s an observation.

She made no threat.

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