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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I'm a few thousand dollars away from being able to pay my bills this month, but the most important thing I need to pay for is my health insurance: I've got meds I can't afford without it and an upcoming CT scan.
If you can donate a few dollars or more, that'd really help! Thanks!

ko-fi.com/fooneturing
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28 comments
Rue Mohr

@foone oh no, WTF are you doing in the USA then!?

Eric S. Smith

@smiddi @PJ_Evans @RueNahcMohr You may be surprised to learn that most countries are not exactly welcoming when you show up out of nowhere as a foreigner and announce that you’re broke and here for the benefits.

Rue Mohr

@smiteri @smiddi @PJ_Evans

yea, I'd have to import him to work here.As my vintage hardware librarian and CNC code verifier.

Foone🏳️‍⚧️

The fuckers went ahead and pre-canceled my insurance so the donated money I was going to use for prescriptions is not not enough to cover even the first two.

Fuck the US health system.

VeNT

@foone how do they pre-cancel something?
America is truly a fucked up system.
Move to the UK. it's 75% less turfy than the internet makes out.

endrift

@VeNT @foone Ah yes, with all the spare money they can't pay for meds with, not to mention the two roommates who also don't have work visas and the thousands of pounds of computers and stuff that would need shipping.

That can't have been a serious suggestion, right?

VeNT

@endrift @foone I was _not_ suggesting it's a solution to the current problem. but it could be something work towards. I'm not entirely sure why the two roommates are their problem?

Foone🏳️‍⚧️

Many people think the US healthcare system is messed up because you have to pay for healthcare. This is actually incorrect!
The US healthcare system is fucked up because you have to pay to NOT get healthcare.

Foone🏳️‍⚧️

I'm paying 1600$/month for healthcare I CAN'T USE because both of the middlemen organizations between me and my doctors/pharmacists are too incompetent to communicate with each other.

Rudi (ryjelsum)

@foone it is really an indictment of the for-profit healthcare insurance industry that most of us in the US would rather deal with the government than our respective health insurance companies considering the general neutral to negative sentiment towards the citizen-facing bureaucratic aspect of our government amongst most people here

Stefanie⭐🏳️‍⚧️

@foone and pharmacy benefit managers add another unnecessary level of bullshitery, it sucks!

endrift

@foone I'm gonna start calling bureaucracy you have to deal with to not die "blood-red tape".

Bel Tamtu

@foone I'm so sorry this is happening. :(

Philipp

@ivor @foone @luckytran
So we need to work towards getting keyboard building or reverse engineering obscure data formats turned into an olympic sport? Got it.

Chris Wagner

@ivor @foone @luckytran oh, no. You can also work for the government and get great access. Ironically.

earbs 💖💛💙

@foone I hope you're keeping your state insurance board in the loop on this?

endrift

@foone On what grounds?? How is this even legal?

Rue Mohr

@foone Sue them, thats how the USA works, you sue people. Use the donation money. Get them good.

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