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JD Vance Awfully Quiet After Report on How His Mom Got Health Care

newrepublic.com JD Vance Awfully Quiet After Report on How His Mom Got Health Care

The Republican vice presidential nominee loves to talk about how his mom struggled with addiction—but not about how she recieved the health care coverage she needed.

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Vance’s mother was able to buy private insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace, run by Ohio, after overcoming substance abuse, becoming financially stable, and earning too much to stay on Medicaid.
- The interesting thing is that I'm not sure anybody gives a shit that his mom got help through the ACA. The story here is that he can't show any level of gratitude for the thing that has helped his own mother because he's such a partisan piece of shit. The ACA sucks, but healthcare in this country was a complete dumpster fire before it passed, and it will return to being a complete dumpster fire if it's repealed without a more expansive replacement in place.
  
  This wouldn't be a story if Medicaid didn't have means testing attached which is how she lost eligibility. This wouldn't be a story if JD would show thanks for the healthcare plan modeled after what a Republican governor put together, but that would be perceived as disloyalty to his toddler-brained master. This wouldn't be a story if there were universal healthcare as there should be. He's between a rock and a hard place because he's too spineless to swallow his pride and show humanity even regarding the health of his own mom. Fucking pathetic.
  
  ACA only sucked cause Republicans blocked every attempt to address the faults and issues that only became apparent after rolling it out.
- She bought healthcare from Obama? 😮
We all know under Trumps concepts of a plan she would get super extra special care. In other words she would be dumped on skid row and bankrupt.
- I'll be damned if my tax dollars are going to fly her to LA under that plan.
  
  Skid row ^generic.
  
  Look, every city has a Skid Row, and L.A.'s is the largest, but Seattle actually owns that term because they were a logging town, and pioneer square was where loggers used skids to pull cut logs from the bay ("skid road").
it's ridiculous how much we jerk off to being the greatest country in the world ever but we can't even have this basic quality of life feature that so many other countries have made work. fucking israel has universal healthcare! what a pathetic empire
- As someone who grew up outside the US, I can tell you that every developed country in the world casts itself as the greatest country on earth. Now, all of those countries, except the US, have most of the basics down, so there's that.
  
  I have lived in 5 countries and the USA is the only one that claims this we're the greatest bullshit all the time.
  
  Every country loves itself, but the USA is psychotic about it
  
  every developed country in the world casts itself as the greatest country on earth
  
  Not Germany.
  
  For once.
  
  And for the time being.
- It's also ridiculous how much we jerk off to being the greatest country in the world but a man cannot admit to making sweet love to a couch.
  
  That... was oddly specific - and hillarious.
- Hey, thats all the more reason for us not to have it.
  
  We're America, god damnit. American Exceptionalism demands we pave a different path. A rugged path. Like the men of the wild west! We cant use the same idea everyone else has, thats just filthy socio-communism!
  
  /s
  
  We’re America, god damnit. American Exceptionalism demands we pave a different path. A rugged path.
  
  A path directly toward the cliff edge and then straight off of it into the ravine below!
  
  We’re America, god damnit. American Exceptionalism demands we pave a different path. A rugged path. Like the men of the wild west! We cant use the same idea everyone else has, thats just filthy socio-communism!
  
  You're kidding, but the arguments I have heard against better healthcare in this country boil down to pretty much this.
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- We're waiting for even a concept of a plan.
  
  And he supposedly had concepts... plural. Really unfair of him to not even release a concept.
- He’ll release it in two more weeks *[TM]
  
  Right after his tax returns
- He's going to have one of Elon's autonomous cars deliver it. Should arrive any year now.
  
  It'll be on the first Starship from Mars.
Wait, your mom is still alive?

You've been claiming Mexicans killed her by forcing her to take drugs (When in reality she was a nurse that stole controlled substances)

Man, fuck this guy.
- He meant his other mom.
Using your own mother as a false political point is disgusting.
- At least he didn't claim Haitians ate his mom.
  
  Haitians did eat his moms pussy though so I see how he got confused.
- Doesn't even crack the top 100 of the disgusting shit Republican politicans have done.
Amazing a right winger taking advantage of the social safety net they spend all their time trying to destroy.
Who knew healthcare could be so complicated?
- I swore he had a comprehensive plan in 2016. Where did that go?
What's the Thai flag doing in the background?
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