Tubby walking it back
Said the quiet part too loud.
Matt Gaetz wasnât actually a nobody, though. His dad was a very influential Florida politician.
This may be the new leader in the clubhouse for dumbest Florida lawâŚ
The policy gives insurers and health care providers the ability to deny medical services that are against their moral religious or ethical beliefs.
Iâm really excited to find out what moral and ethical beliefs health insurance companies have about expensive procedures and treatments. The unintended consequences of this fascism are going to be incredible.
Between that and the homeowners insurance crisis unfolding in Florida, Democrats should make sure not to win the governorâs race there. This is a âPlease proceed, governor,â type of moment.
We may actually be really close to the unanticipated and unintended finding out portion of the insane fucking around that Florida conservatives have been doing, and hanging it around the national GOPâs neck seems pretty optimal.
Make America Florida? Oh you want uninsurable homes, health insurance that wonât pay for anything they donât want to, and schools with no books? Well, thatâs one way to goâŚ
What makes you think these consequences are unintended?
I mean someone may be intentionally pulling some strings on how the law is worded, but I think the Florida state legislature is just trying to punish gay and trans people and women and doesnât realize what itâs doing.
Wonât generate half as many articles as âHomelessness is $LIBERAL_CITY proves SOCIALISM doesnât work.â
Ehhh, when white middle class Boomers start losing their homes because they canât afford the insurance, or losing their lives because their insurer doesnât ethically believe in treating cancer, thatâll get headlines and news segments.
No they absolutely will pass a law subsidizing white boomersâ insurance
What Iâm curious about is how theyâll raise enough money to actually cover the subsidy. This would be a big budget item and frankly I donât think they have it or have access to a politically feasible source of funding for it.
how much of that is governorâs policy? isnât it a combination of climate change making disasters worse, and some deregulation for some notably smaller issues like contractor work?
Itâs mostly climate change, and itâs going to be the moment a lot of people realize theyâve been getting lied to because the cold hard reality is going to smack them in the face.
Yeah this is not a topic where people who wisely headed for the hills are going to get to experience smug schadenfreude. Governments not going to systemically let millions of property owners suffer. This is USA #1, itâs gonna get bailed out / further subsidized. I mean it took them like a week to cook up PPP and get the money printers going.
This assumes a fairly rapid progression. If things are not as bad as some predictions and drags out I could see people slowly getting priced out but the faster it happens the more bailouts coming
you think the FL legislature wouldnât be happier than a pig in shit if insurance companies started sticking it to the dirty poors? You think upper-middle class people with employer-sponsored/self-managed Cadillac health plans have anything to worry about?
Middle class, yes. I donât think employee sponsored insurance is a guarantee not to be impacted by this. Upper middle class probably depends on how upper and what line of work.
The âconsequencesâ we see as finding out are actually what Meatball Ron and his band of deplorable boomers want tho. Yah obv the consequences will be disastrous to the vulnerable and unconnected but lol yah thatâs the point. The cruelty is always the point.
Yes, itâs the quintessential âI never thought theyâd eat my face!â scenario.
Right, but a lot of those faces getting eaten financially will be white middle class conservatives. The backlash will be significant.
This reminds me for the âI voted for the n-word,â quote from the racist guy in West Virginia in 2008. If people lose their houses, or a loved one canât get important medical procedures covered, theyâre not going to have the luxury of their bigotry.