Remember, the GOP wanted healthcare gone. They willingly attacked it for years.
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FrenchPressYesMar 24, 2026
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This right here is an example of institutional violence. Institutional violence refers to harm inflicted on individuals or groups through the policies, practices, attitudes, rules, or operations of organizations and institutions (such as prisons, police, schools, hospitals, courts, or government agencies), rather than through direct personal attacks.
It is a form of structural violence embedded in how institutions function. These systems prevent people from meeting basic needs, marginalize vulnerable populations, or cause preventable suffering—often without any single identifiable "perpetrator" taking overt violent action. The harm appears normalized as "just how things work."
Trump and his administration have subjected the entire country to this form of violence in many forms, aimed at many different segments of our society. I took the time to explain this because I believe a lot of people feel something like this has happened to them but didn't have the term for it. I'm an egghead.
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TheInvisibleToastMar 24, 2026
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Too bad. We need that money for bombing Iran and protecting the dear leader
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Equivalent-Dare-415Mar 24, 2026
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These are people that opted out preemptively. Wait until people start getting kicked off when they can’t pay.
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EricThePerplexedMar 24, 2026
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At least gas is cheaper, so the loss of ACA subsides couple ed with the loss of rural hospitals won't hurt as much, right?
Oh.
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Miserable_Pie_8337Mar 24, 2026
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As predicted... Trump & Republicans hate the average American.
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Botasoda102Mar 24, 2026
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Unfortunately, many more will find they can’t pay as the year progresses.
So far, it’s not as bad as some of the predictions earlier, probably because people are hoping to hold on for someone to come to their senses on healthcare.
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katalyticglassMar 24, 2026
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This is exactly what's happening. They try to squeeze out a few months. Get anything they can handled, just in case it doesn't, and build a set of alternate solutions. But mostly just hope.
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BakedadsMar 24, 2026
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Good. We need to stop trying to sustain a broken system and let it crash. That democrats normalized a republican solution that perpetuates an unjust system is despicable.
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madprgmrMar 24, 2026
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And, uh, what happens to the people who have no option except the current system? Would it not make more sense to work on a replacement system before removing the current one?
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Zestyclose-Novel1157Mar 24, 2026
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Unfortunately the pressure for change (especially for the better for the people without power) comes from suffering. It doesn’t happen when things are the best ever.
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madprgmrMar 24, 2026
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You can apply pressure without causing people to die, though, which forcing the ACA to collapse would cause.
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Zestyclose-Novel1157Mar 24, 2026
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It’s quite a leap to say forces people to die. I see this as no different than what people who can’t afford employer insurance do all the time. Go ahead and keep that idealism. Im sure the history of OSHA and frankly most of health policy would disagree.
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madprgmrMar 24, 2026
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> It’s quite a leap to say forces people to die.
Here's a study from before the ACA: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/
Here's a report from around the same time: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/health-care-advocates-say-thousands-die-due-lack-insurance
Here's a more recent study (published in 2022) showing roughly the same increase in mortality risk (41% in a better-matched sample) when experiencing a disruption in private health insurance (which healthcare marketplace and employer-provided plans are): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9685485/
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wefarrellMar 24, 2026
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>I see this as no different than what people who can’t afford employer insurance do all the time
They don't do anything about their health problems until it's too serious and many die earlier than they should because of it.
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