The thing is, it's also bad business.

I'm lucky, I'm in good health and haven't really needed coverage. I didn't make a single claim for myself last year. I'm pure profit for the insurer. If others like me do the same, next year's premiums will jump even more insanely. This isn't sustainable.

ACA silver plan for 1 adult and 1 child, went from $465 a month to over $1,200 a month. Bronze plans offer so little it would be more cost efficient to put that money aside and pay out of pocket.
My plan is to insure my kid, drop insurance for myself and hope I don't get cancer.

Don't apologize to me. Spam those shitheels. I'll grin every time I click the "show post" under the spam label.

This is how little they care about you. They don't care if the poors have access to healthcare or not.

Think of everything you were willing to give up to let the fight go on, and they were more than happy to sell you out so they could go to some fancy holiday party back in their home state.

But Jason, if they did what their constituency is demanding it might have messed up their holiday travel plans. Like they were one of the poors. Totally unreasonable to expect them to suffer through that.

Our wonderful bluesky overlords have you flagged as spam. Guess you have to stop your DIY pet furniture propaganda.

Don't forget to give credit to their big corporate donor/golf buddies calling and complaining about their vacations too.

My near verbatim thought when seeing this was "if a woman smiled at me like that while saying I love you I wouldn't leave any unattended drinks around"

Ouch. This is so accurate and heartbreaking

You're going to have to narrow it down in a city full of great stuff. Looking to stay downtown? Types of cuisine? Any activies you're especially interested in?

Portland has one of the best music scenes in the US, so consider checking the concert listings in the Portland Mercury