Dig this.
Republicans refuse to lower healthcare costs. Older Texans that are too young for Medicare will be hit the hardest.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) November 12, 2025
Theresa Hebert is one of the more than 3 million Texans who rely on healthcare subsidies. Without ACA tax credits, her premium will cost $1,000/month. pic.twitter.com/FPwhYLVAQY
She's fat. She knows she's fat. We know she's fat. We all know she's going to slorp down a lot more medical resources than she would if she took care of herself, but she doesn't. If she paid a much higher percentage of her own health care costs, she might. As long as she gets her treatments for free or almost free, she's not going to be as motivated to get healthy. As a consequence, open your wallets, boys and girls.
And don't get me started about obesity in the black community. 4 out of 5 black women are obese. When I was in Jackson, MS a while back, it was simply stunning to see the enormity, ha ha, of the problem. I went to a mall, trying to find a camo Ole Miss hat and I swear, every single store entrance was effectively single file because of the boxcar-sized black women going in and out of them.
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"We all know she's going to slorp down a lot more medical resources than she would if she took care of herself"
Not necessarily. Dying abruptly of a heart attack or stroke can be pretty cheap. Especially if it happens so fast that there is no time to get the person to a hospital. And an abrupt death like that is certainly cheaper than dying slowly of senile dementia in a memory care facility over a period of years. Or a lingering death from cancer while getting multiple operations and chemotherapy. Both of which are way more likely if you live a longer time than if your heart gives out in your late 50s or early 60s.
I'm not so sure about the overall point of your post, either. It comes across as, "It is important that fat people suffer the full consequences of being fat, and so it is OK to make sure that health care is expensive for everybody just to make sure that the fat people suffer appropriately." Is that really what you meant to say?
Health Care is absurdly expensive, and I had an experience that brought it home a couple months back.
Early in the morning, the cats were being annoying, it was feeding time. I got up too fast and got light headed. Like the idiot I am, I didn't sit back down and get sorted. I pushed through, I managed to get them their food, and then started to head outside to feed the strays.
I'd pressed too hard, and fainted. Hardwood floors mean it made a big noise. My wife came running. I came to, and got back up quickly and headed in the next direction, too fast, eyes closed, and I ran into a wall grabbing a floor lamp which crashed down with me.
I blacked out another time, and she called 911. I said I was fine. I wasn't. Cops came, paramedics came. They gave me some oxygen, and I started feeling better. Not good, but better. It was decided, that I was going to be taken to the ER. 2 miles to the hosipital, I was pretty much fine by the time we got there.
I walked the 20 feet out to the crash cart, down the front steps. In the ambulance because I "hit my head", they put a collar on me, and hooked me to an heart monitor. There was a bit of flutter.
At the ER, I'm hooked up to the machine that goes bing, and was taken to the most expensive machine in the hosipital. MRI and X-rays. I got some fkuids.
Dr Van Pelt (not Lucy, but she was real nice) , looked me over, and the nurses fussed. 30 minutes after the MRI and X-rays, I was cleared to take the collar off. The Doctor was in my room about 10 minutes total in all the time.
3 hours later, I'm discharged, everything is fine. No real treatment, a couple things that weren't needed and my HSA is 2K lighter.
Basically, if I had a $15 can of oxygen you can get at Cabella's and a glass or two of water, that would have been the same treatment.
And now, I'm retiring at the first of the year, and will be paying for my own health insurance for 2 1/2 years, and my wife's for more than 5.
Since Obamacare passed, I've seen my company health insurance skyrocket while coverage shrinks. I've not had health issues my whole life, but things are creeping in.
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