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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Sorry but your last point is absolutely asinine. It ignores the hardships caused by relocating, the fact that rural hospitals like those available in WV are continuously shutting their doors as they are deemed unprofitable (the husband has health problems), and the fact that, based upon a wealth of international studies, the isolation from social support networks that they’d assuredly face, is pretty much a death sentence.

So, from that point alone, your statement could be paraphrased as: “They don’t need to live in such an unaffordable place; they could just die instead.”

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

the isolation from social support networks that they’d assuredly face, is pretty much a death sentence.

They are THIS CLOSE to homelessness right now. Is homelessness for an 81 year old woman with a 90 year old husband not also a death sentence?

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Sorry but your last point is absolutely asinine.

…and…

is pretty much a death sentence.

What do you call being forced to work at 81 (with a 90 year old non-working husband), and only being able to work 4 of the 5 hour shift because you’re exhausted? How about the fact that they are THIS CLOSE to being homeless if she doesn’t work? They’ve had bad luck and made bad choices for most of the second half of their lives. We don’t have any good solutions left only least worst.

You’re saying that moving is a death sentence. I’m saying homelessness is, which is what is in their near future.

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- nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  What do you call being forced to work at 81 (with a 90 year old non-working husband), and only being able to work 4 of the 5 hour shift because you’re exhausted?
  
  I call it “absolutely fucked up”.
  
  You’re saying that moving is a death sentence. I’m saying homelessness is, which is what is in their near future.
  
  Maybe I took you the wrong way, if so, my apologies. I think that this is a case of both statements bring correct. They are effectively being murdered through fiscal policy and corruption.
  
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roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Pretty much all rural hospitals will close when the Medicaid cuts take effect after the next midterms.

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