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haele

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17. The alternative is to go back to the way it was before even Nixon talked to the Kaisers...
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 04:29 PM
Oct 2025

If you had the money, you could got your health care and medication when you needed it, or get insurance if you had something chronic and wasn't wealthy enough to get a caretaker and on call doctor.
If you were poor, there was the ER and charities that might be willing to pay for your care. Or a State hospital or sanitarium if the state was willing to put sick people up.
Or you could die in your house - or at the very worst, in a back ally huddling in a cardboard shelter or your car.
Because that's what you deserve if you didn't make the right choices in life. The GOP is the party of "Personal Responsibility", after all. ❄️❄️❄️. - feckin' hypocrites.

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