Serra Sea
gimblerocket.bsky.social
Serra Sea
@gimblerocket.bsky.social
Recent emigrée from the other place. Social justice warrior. I like cats, bikes, podcasts, investigative journalism, many kinds of music, and general nerdery.

Toronto 🇨🇦
But my larger point is this: if we struggle to collectively solve hunger - in the face of disinterest or hostility from government - it's going to be substantially more difficult to try to solve healthcare without the ACA.
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In contrast, the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare saved thousands of lives.

Did the ACA Medicaid expansion save lives? - ScienceDirect share.google/speL5YMfHPdz...
Did the ACA Medicaid expansion save lives?
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion using restr…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This one, from 2009, estimates over 45,000 people died annually due to not having health insurance, also before Obamacare.

New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage — Harvard Gazette share.google/H45N0mvnirty...
New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage — Harvard Gazette
Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The lack of healthcare will definitely kill people. It already has and it was much worse before Obamacare. This estimate has over 26,000 Americans dying annually because of lack of health insurance. An example from 2008:
More than 26 000 Americans die each year because of lack of health insurance
An official website of the United States government
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November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
People are mobilizing to try to address the need for food. Restaurants are offering free meals. Some banks are even deferring mortgage payments for federal employees.

It's less hard for people to try to address material conditions than to fix healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Do you think they'll be better off with the ridiculous increase in health insurance costs? Where the choice is paying thousands a month for insurance or going without insurance? And probably avoiding getting care because of high costs / deductibles.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Will you be calling for Sen Schumer to be replaced as leader, then? At best, he is ineffective. At worst, he is actively complicit in how the vote went down last night.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Ditto for every other Senator not publicly calling for Schumer's ouster. He was either the architect of this (the most likely) or was so ineffectual that he couldn't stop it. Both options are bad!
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And then you caved for nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Congratulations for making people suffer for 40 days for no reason. If you won't fight for the people you're meant to represent, get out of the way of the people who will.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's not like there's any reason to believe they'll be more effective in January.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Because nobody breathes on or near you at the podiatrist?
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Do you have a confirmed origin for this image? Because it looks like AI. The bottom string on the guitar disappears when the fretboard suddenly changes shape just to the right of whatever the red thing is.
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Ooh, I love vocal harmonies.
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Only one way to be sure!
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I wasn't even remotely surprised by the results because I've been paying attention.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is absolute bullshit and I'm sorry you have had to deal with the guilt trips and the lying.
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM