r/beyondwholesome • u/sirjohnmasters86 Wholesome • 1d ago
Too wholesome Good for the Dodgers showing compassion
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u/ClaudeVS 1d ago
r/orphancrushingmachine Having insurance tied to your work is awful
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u/Calpsotoma 1d ago
My thought too. America has one of the most broken health systems in the world and greedy lobbyists want to ensure better health systems are made as bad to maximize profits.
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u/spookiisweg 1d ago
How exactly? I ask this out of curiosity not disagreement
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u/Ravens-Ravens-Ravens 1d ago
If you lose your job, your access to healthcare is practically nonexistent. Its too expensive for the majority of people, and if you have any major issues, you have to choose between life long debt or ruining your health (or possibly death)
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u/jermacide 22h ago
Good question. I think of it as being a gap to the social safety net. Imagine something bad happens to you (you get long covid, you get hit by a car, you get cancer, etc…) and it affects your performance at work (very likely if it’s serious), then you end up losing both your job and your health insurance right when you need it the most.
Now imagine that at scale. We get another pandemic, but worse than COVID (essentially guaranteed to happen again eventually). Lots of people get sick, lots of layoffs from a collapsed economy, now we have millions of people with no healthcare right at the exact moment everyone is at highest risk of getting very sick. This happened at a small scale with covid, it was the highest unemployment rate in decades at the same time people needed healthcare the most.
So you could lose your job due to no fault of your own and face the worst hiring market in history since everyone else did too, be at very high probability of getting a deadly disease that requires expensive treatment, and have no healthcare, even though you did everything right.
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u/omarhani 1d ago
This is how broken America's healthcare system is. We should be outraged! THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
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u/No_Representative669 1d ago
Desperately old post
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u/Equivalent_Gur3967 1d ago
It IS good they're showing compassion. But the average person doesn't get anywhere near that.
I'm healthy and fit. But I'm also 71 y/o. I'm on Medicare which is a HUGE help.
But, all You people younger that Me...
Keep pounding that drum about Universal Healthcare. Motherfucking 2026, and We just can't seem to get ANY traction about that.
When WE ALL are just one serious HealthScare away from financial ruin.
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u/Salt_Indication_1800 1d ago
The Dodgers have shown more then compassion. They have shown the league people come first.
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