David isn’t the only profoundly disabled one in this family.
I’m just one mother, and David is just one child.
You only care because it hit you. Sucks for the kid, but you are getting exactly what you asked for. I hope the rest of your life will be full of agonising nightmares.
Toots and pretzels.
Kid never should have been born. Can’t even feed himself. Ffs. It must be hell.
David does not walk, talk or eat independently. He is visually impaired and has hearing loss. He has an unrepaired cleft palate open to protruding brain tissue, covered by a thin layer of mucous membrane.
Poor fucking kid. Nobody deserves to live like this. Not only can he not eat by himself, he can’t walk or talk, see or hear properly. His ability to interact with the world is almost non existent
Sad for the boy. For the mother: just take it as a test by God.
Can I have his computer when he… doesn’t need it anymore?
kiss my fucking ass and fuck you and your son.
Thots and preyers
Have the day you voted for.
Only because of her son I’m not cackling madly. That truly, awfully sucks for her son, he’s an innocent who got the shit end of the stick and born to a shit person.
But any conservatives that voted for this or non-conservatives that stayed home instead of voting against it that needs medicaid to live and are terrified by this, understand I am full on Nelson laughing at you.
“I’m also here to tell you why I’m an unlikely supporter of the program. My son’s life depends on government assistance.”
The reason this horrible excuse for a human being supports Medicaid is only because it affects her personally. Like most Republicans she doesn’t give a shit about anyone else as long as she gets hers.
If it had been anyone else’s son and family in identical circumstances she’d tell them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. She should do the same.
Honestly, I can work with selfishness. I just can’t work with stupid. My partner and I are well enough off to likely never need to rely on the social safety net. Not crazy wealthy, just a couple, both with STEM backgrounds. Well enough off that we are unlikely to ever qualify for any needs-based programs, but not so well off that we don’t have to work for a living. We stand to gain little from a strong social safety net, but we strongly support public housing, Medicare for all, tuition-free universities, etc.
We do this for two reasons. One, there is the moral aspect. There’s a genuine desire to not see the poor and working class live in squalor and misery. In a country as wealthy and technologically advanced as ours, no one should have to worry about access to the basic necessities of life.
But the other reason is actually pure self-interest. Nothing in this life is certain. Unless you’ve put away enough to live off the interest of your investments, you are not immune from a job loss. Obviously the better off you are the less you have to fear from this. But unless you literally don’t have to work anymore, you’re at risk of ending up broke and homeless. Even us, with the right combination of job losses and medical emergencies, could end up needing to use that social safety net. If the fever dreams of the AI chuds come true, and the professional classes are replaced by LLMs, well my partner and I are both out of work. Even if I will likely never need public housing, I want it to exist, just in case I am unfortunate enough to need it. We’ve been quite fortunate and had some lucky breaks. But fortune can change. And in an era of rapid technological advancement, anyone is at risk of their entire career path suddenly being made obsolete when they’re right in the middle of their career. Too late to start from scratch; too early to retire. It could happen to any of us. One of the reasons I support a strong social safety net is pure self-interest.
The other aspect of self interest is that a good social safety net reduces the number of crazy people out on the streets. Want to ride the metro without crazy, screaming weirdos? Social supports… Want to have clean functioning public bathrooms that arent used as injection sites for addicts? Social supports… So much of life would be better if we took care of the lowest in society instead of leaving them in a state of living death on the streets.
The research is very clear about this as well. Many social support programs are good investments, even from a conservative fiscal perspective.
Housing First programs are one example. These are programs that give shelter to unhoused people first without requiring them to quit drinking, do drug testing, go to counseling or church, and so on. Not only do these programs directly save lives, they are more fiscally responsible than the continuum of care/ war on drugs approach that is typically used. This is because people who have shelter use fewer emergency services, need to go to the hospital less often, have less frequent contact with police, and so on.
“I’m too much of a fucking moron to do what other conservatives do and discover compassion when it directly affects me but while I can still have an effect on things.”
Families like mine are struggling to make sense of this rapidly shifting landscape. Lack of clear and accessible information, fear of impending federal cuts and proactive state reductions in Medicaid have left me and others confused and angry.
That’s because of fhe party you voted for dipshit
It’s journalistic malpractice to leave out a response to the op ed that says “let me simplify this for you: you voted for this garbage, you half-wit. Tomorrow we will publish an op ed musing about how someone as stupid as you seem to be manages to survive getting out of bed in the morning without at least seriously injuring yourself.”
I don’t feel bad for you. I feel bad for your son who you chose to fuck over.
Her human shaped lump of meat you mean? Her son should have been aborted. His brain didn’t fully form and he’ll never be able to live a normal life. Instead he’ll be kept alive because politicians wanted higher birth rates, and leveraged her religion to make her believe it would have been an immoral decision to make.
My original statement still stands.
I’m also here to tell you why I’m an unlikely supporter of the program. My son’s life depends on government assistance.
literally admits they only care because they are affected.
you fucking deserve this. its exactly what you voted for
Lol. LMAO.
Selfish twats are funny to read about.
it’s almost as though healthcare is a human right and shouldn’t be a political football…
Love how these are always ‘the GOP is screwing me, but it’s my party!’ It’s never I was a republican, or something no, I am. It’s like yes, they only care when it effects them, but they also only care while it effects them, these people would happily go back to persecuting trans or brown people or whatever if their child had medical.
I’m left wondering what life is like for her two older children.
Caring for David is holy work, but it takes a village. […] am even paid a living wage to care for my son. […] I am a Medicaid provider because I am paid to care for my son, as are my son’s physical therapists, occupational therapists, primary care physicians, specialists, case managers and others.
This kid is what allows her to feel holy. To feel like a doctor. Kind of a like a Münchhausen by proxy, but the disease is real.
It can’t be great growing up in that household.
