Anti-health care plaintiff bankrupt because of medical bills

[xerox78]

Plaintiff challenging healthcare law went bankrupt - with unpaid medical bills
Obama administration lawyers say her case is an example of why an insurance mandate is needed to prevent 'uncompensated care that will ultimately be paid by others.'Reporting from Washington

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[chaya]

[arisma]

Old school Hugh. ♥

[fightingwords]

Hahahaha

[4dollabj]

Holy shit@~50k in CC debt

She needs the government to hold her hand and tell her how to spend money tbh

[entropius]

This is the heart of the argument between big-government and small-government types: in this situation, should she:

1) Have the government run her life for her;
2) Be entitled to spend someone else's money (or have the government spend money on her behalf) since she's out of her own;
3) Have to deal with the consequences of her indebtedness and lack of insurance on her own

[4dollabj]

Yeah :/ it's a really tough situation because regardless of which of those options you choose (or a mix of all three) it's still someone else paying for it--someone has to fund government programs to help with financial planning, has to give her money to spend, or have to deal with whatever other options she turns to when she runs out of money and credit (which can have direct and indirect costs to society)

I'm not really sure how to address the issue, especially since the root of the problem is that it has become the norm to expect to be able to spend money you don't have, both on a personal and institutional level. How do you fix that?

[bestdaywelived]

3.

[intrikate88]

She doesn't want to pay for it. She just wants others to pay for it.

I thought it was that kind of thinking that got you lambasted as a Welfare Queen in her camp. No? Should she have a baby too, just to make sure? (Tasteless comment, I'll be the first to admit. But clinging to your ideology when you just stuck many other people and organizations in society with your bad debt is also rather tasteless.)

[tabaqui]

And she somehow doesn't see the freakin' hypocrisy of her stance *or* the irony of her pushing her bills off on 'the taxpayer'. Jayzus.

[layweed]

'sup irony?