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Joe Unseen @joeunseen.bsky.social

I’m old enough to remember Sarah Palin claiming Obamacare would set up “death panels.” And some people believed her.

aug 29, 2025, 2:50 pm • 20 0

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Eugene Bluegrass @eugenebluegrass.bsky.social

Yes! This sound like robot DEATH PANELS

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aug 29, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Reinoc @reinoc.bsky.social

Every accusation is a confession.

aug 29, 2025, 3:38 pm • 10 0 • view
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Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social

There were already death panels: Insurance companies excluding anyone with a pre-existing condition. One big difference is going to be that Roe v Wade is no longer there to keep the government out of your medical records and they're planning to upload them into AI. www.vox.com/2017/5/4/155...

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Hellish Children @hellishchildren.bsky.social

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aug 29, 2025, 4:43 pm • 3 0 • view
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Cuddle Puddle @cuddlepuddle.bsky.social

When I was 20, I was rejected for employer-sponsored health insurance because I had broken my rt. humerus and lt. femur in a car accident when I was 17. (They were obvs healed by then.) I didn't have health insurance until my mid-20s because of that 'pre-existing condition.'

aug 29, 2025, 7:21 pm • 4 0 • view
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Jennifer Davis Salazar @paceofgrace.bsky.social

Before the ACA, I was uninsured for most of my pregnancy. When I was finally insured through my husband’s employer at 7 months pregnant, the insurer told us my upcoming hospital labor/delivery costs would not be covered- because my pregnancy was a pre-existing condition & therefore excluded.

aug 29, 2025, 9:15 pm • 5 1 • view
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Cuddle Puddle @cuddlepuddle.bsky.social

Does this suggest that only 1/3 of 65-year-olds have or have had one of these listed conditions? Ratio has to be higher.

aug 29, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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CJ Dorschel @cjbd2112.bsky.social

Yup. That was all over the news back then. Never happened. Yet here we are under republicans.

aug 29, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view