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zerocapitalism:

You know, the thing that really aggravates me about Joe Biden’s shitty stance on universal health care is the fact that when one of his sons, who died from brain cancer, was sick and undergoing treatment, and it was starting to look like he might not be able to work as a result and would therefore have had no income to support himself and his family or proper health insurance to cover the costs of his treatment, Joe Biden planned to sell his second home to help his son’s family pay for the treatment and keep them afloat. It was the Obamas who convinced him not to do it and told him that they’d help him to cover whatever the costs were if it ever came down to it. 

Joe Biden was the goddamned Vice President of the United States of America. He literally owns more than one home. His son was working as the attorney general in Delaware. And even they came to a point where they were struggling to figure out how they would be able to pay for all this without bankrupting themselves in the process. His son couldn’t even quit his job even though he had fucking brain cancer because his family needed the money, even though his illness was starting to affect his ability to work in the first place.

And Joe Biden is the same stupid fucker who thinks universal health care is a pie in the sky fever dream that most Americans don’t deserve because protecting the assets of health insurance companies is far more important for him and the Democratic establishment than anything else.

If the state of the American healthcare system is such that even a person with a reasonably well-paying job, with better health insurance than most other people are privy to, can’t afford to quit their job, even though their illness makes it increasingly difficult for them to work, because they wouldn’t be able to afford their treatment without having to get their parents to take out a second mortgage on their second house, what does this say about the state of things for literally everyone else in the country??? 

I would like to state that his sons treatment was at MD Anderson and was not standard of care. I was there as a student when he was treated. Our healthcare sucks but the cost of his treatment was research in nature which is why the price was exorbitant even for the VP. He still had the option that many don’t get without money but this wasn’t what anyone with a glioblastlma/ any other central nervous cancer experiences as a cost

That actually highlights the awful nature of healthcare even more. The disparity of choices available for the moderately wealthy (if that characterizes Joe Biden) vs normal ppl in the country who couldn’t possibly dream of even accessing that level of care + the fact that this still strained their finances to the limit makes it all so much worse.