• DarkGamer@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Public health care covers all kinds of public health care, this shouldn’t be news but trans people being treated like anyone else seems to rile up the right.

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      10 months ago

      Public Healthcare shouldn’t exist, let alone should it cover entirely optional procedures for illegals

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        10 months ago

        “I want people to die in the streets, hungry, broke, and suffering”

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          10 months ago

          Republicanism is about hurting the, “right people.” In this case, trans people and the non-wealthy infirmed. Who cares if it costs us more for worse outcomes for everyone?

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            10 months ago

            Why transpeople specifically, and not just non-wealthy people in general?

            (A complete side thing, isn’t ‘infirmed’ an old time slur for disabled people?)

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              10 months ago

              Why transpeople specifically

              There is a major push on the right to deny trans people rights and medical care. This article was intended to create outrage among them, as it relates to two groups who are popular to vilify: trans people and illegal immigrants, with an implication of wasteful spending as well. Rather than focusing on the benefits of public health care for most people, it singles out minority groups who the author implies are unworthy of receiving it.

              isn’t ‘infirmed’ an old time slur for disabled people?

              My understanding was that infirmed just means people who are ill, however looking it up just now it evidently has implications of being feeble/weak/elderly that I did not intend.

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                10 months ago

                Trans people have the same rights as everyone else, but I understand that the perception is different. And for the record, illegal immigrants are villians.

                As for infirmed, yeah, Ive been caught out a couple times too, it happens. No single person can know everything.

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              10 months ago

              It is non-wealthy people. That is just one service provided. I disagree that we should be paying for cosmetic surgery but it’s not my tax money.

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      10 months ago

      Well the other part of it is paying for illegal immigrants to get a procedure when citizens don’t get that.

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        10 months ago

        Citizens also qualify for Medi-Cal, I’m not sure where you got the idea they don’t.

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        10 months ago

        The government shouldn’t be paying for cosmetic surgery at all. This is my main concern with universal coverage which I support. They won’t control the cost.

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          10 months ago

          Do you mean elective cosmetic surgery or cosmetic surgery in general? I certainly want my public health care to cover people disfigured in accidents, for example.