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Danny Boling ☮️

This is how healthcare works in the US and it'll never get better until capitalism is dead. 😡

"According to the Sheriff’s office, a 68-year-old homeless man with terminal cancer chose to get arrested to get healthcare.

"'He re-committed a crime to get put back in the facility so he could receive treatment,' Owens said."

wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-coun
WSB Atlanta: Cobb Sheriff says homeless terminally ill man arrested on purpose for healthcare, he’s not alone

WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta
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@IAmDannyBoling Capitalism is alive and well in Canada, but this would not happen there because they have universal health care.

@IAmDannyBoling Many many years ago in Bristol a tramp (who would these days be called "street homeless") would wander around to the police station each year when the weather got cold and break a window. To get indoors in the warm for the winter. "You again - would you like your usual four months?" would say the magistrate, according to the local paper.

@TimWardCam @IAmDannyBoling
All of the “experiments” where homeless people are literally given a home, one of the outcomes that shows up over and over is a reduction in public expenditures for emergency medical care, because, surprise, people literally are out on the streets in freezing, inclement weather.

@qurlyjoe @TimWardCam

There are obvious solutions that we aren't taking advantage of because our politicians and our media won't explain the situation (and solutions) correctly. Tim explains a typical but bad kind of solution, while curlyjoe explains one of the correct ways to handle homelessness that people in power don't want to offer. It's so crazy!