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Medical Emergencies
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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"But our taxes are so low and our incomes are so high!"
boom 30+ years in debt because student loan
boom Diabetes
boom Insane living costs
boom Hospital bill
boom Homeless
How do Americans sleep at night knowing they could be royally fucked the moment they have just a little bit of bad luck?
That's the fun part! We don't!
Literally, I am so stressed out every minute of every day that I genuinely think I have gone mad.
During Covid, I started playing the guitar, and really got into it, and over 5 years later, I've gotten pretty good.
The biggest revelation was how much better I felt. I realized that I had been operating under a low grade depression for my entire life, I just never knew it, because it was my baseline feeling, for my entire life.
Now that I figured that out, I'm back to being depressed, because other than the guitar, all the other terrible shit is still in my life. Plus MAGA.
But at least I KNOW I'm depressed, so I got that going for me.
I'm very happy for you, or rather I hope you get better.
As for me, I've known I was depressed since I was about 13. The shitty part is I thought it was mental illness at first. But decades later, with a wife I love, I have finally achieved feeling worse than ever.
A completely honest and deadpan answer? Drugs. We've got whole industries around it
Came to say exactly this.
something something temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Honestly though, very few people think through "worst case scenarios" until it's staring them in the face.
The sad thing? Even millionaires arent safe. Its not unheard of cancer treatments draining life savings of millions in just a few years...
I knew a guy who was a CEO of a health care company in the 90s, and retired a millionaire. Then his wife got sick, and her health care costs drained their savings. She died anyway, and he had to go back to work as a regular old sales guy. That's where I met him.
Can’t find it in myself to feel bad for him (too bad for her though)
You fucking losers. I'm a temporarily embarrassed BILLIONAIRE.
My medical plan with insurance: wearing a DNR bracelet at all times since I was 25. Hospital bills, even with insurance, would bankrupt me. But, its helpful to have for dental care.