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Absolutely.

And if every American under 65 (without Medicare) gambled like that, about 99 percent of them would "win" in a given year. Personally, I would be on a 34-year "winning" streak.

We go through this nonsense JUST IN CASE the 1 percent catastrophe happens to us. And it WILL happen to some people. Every year. Just not 32 million of them.

 

32,000? Bullshit.

A quick Google away (ten leading causes of death, usa):


Number of deaths for leading causes of death

• Heart disease: 633,842
  • Cancer: 595,930
  • Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 155,041
  • Accidents (unintentional injuries): 146,571
  • Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 140,323
  • Alzheimer’s disease: 110,561
  • Diabetes: 79,535
  • Influenza and pneumonia: 57,062
  • Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 49,959
  • Intentional self-harm (suicide): 44,193

Source: Health United States, 2016 Table 19[PDF- 11.1 MB] (Data are for 2014)

Twenty times 32,000 DIE of heart disease annually. Easily twenty times that many have a heart attack or some sort of cardiac procedure, a stent, angioplasty, bypass, etc. Same for cancer. A bout with most of that list can easily put you tens of thousands of dollars in the hole *with* insurance. Thats roughly 1.3 million deaths, and there are going to be many more who suffer from those illnesses but not to the point of death, and that's just the low lying fruit of one Google search.

Many of us are one severe illness away from severe financial distress *with* insurance. Make it harder to get or put a $13,000 deductible on medical insurance and it gets worse rapidly.

 

TINMHITTMAL

 

They passed it without a single Republican vote. They could have gone as far as they wanted.

 

What the Layoffs Look Like
at the Carrier Plant Trump Said He’d Save

“Trump came in there to the factory last December and blew smoke up our asses. He wasn’t gonna save those jobs. And, if that’s the case, he would have saved us and Rexnord, a company around the corner from us that makes parts.

“We had a mix of Trump supporters and Clinton supporters at the factory, I’d say. The ones that really supported him are quiet right now. Some of them got let go yesterday, too.

“We talked about Trump on the job, after the election. You could always tell who the Trump supporters were because they never participated in the conversation. It was about even, blacks and whites, for Trump. Also, some of them wore the hats. Not anymore, though.

What the Layoffs Look Like at the Carrier Plant Trump Said He’d Save

 

Do you recall why the public option didn't make it in?

 

True, but is there really going to be substantive open debate? Is McCain going to follow through with his demand that there be bipartisan discussion and drafting of legislation? Or is he just going to fall in line and say a one day debate session is good enough?

If he's really a "wildcat", he'll be true to his word. Unfortunately, I think he's going to sell his soul and go the party line, just like he was in 2008 when the 2000 "wildcat"/independent McCain somehow went into a shell and disappeared for 2 years.

 

Wildcat? I believe Maverick is the word you're looking for.

 

Hey, it's 32 million!

 

Because the former Democratic candidate for Vice President, who caucused with the Democrats, insisted that he'd filibuster if it was in the package.

 

More winning!

 

Exactly. They couldn't pass whatever they wanted.