1/16
@I_Hate_Ted_Cruz
I've talked about this on here before, but as someone who lives below the poverty line, the worst part about poverty is the humiliation rituals that come with it. The lack of privacy in particular has had a profound impact on who I am as a person.
[Quoted tweet]
Dr. Oz: The uninsured “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15-minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.”
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1567550525104689158/pu/vid/888x500/b6hj0GWkGYnngyv3.mp4
2/16
@I_Hate_Ted_Cruz
3/16
@MiekoGavia
Poor people have the least amount of PTO but are forced to take ridiculous amounts of time off to receive services. There have been several times when I had to wait 3+ hours to be seen by doctors or attend government benefit meetings, even with an appointment.
4/16
@IVoteClimate
100%. I think of WIC and how long it took them to switch from coupons to a card so people had SOME privacy using it. Still doesn't work - I saw a young dad have his transaction canceled the other day b/c he got the "wrong" juice and milk. It's all so unnecessary.
5/16
@MtShastaWriter
Yup. I'm flipping a house and ran out of money. I applied for SNAP while my house hopefully sells. I had to air all my personal information in front of a room full of people with ZERO privacy. How is that even legal?
6/16
@SecondGizmo
The replies on this... people are fully toast
[Quoted tweet]
Unfortunately for the health care system, many people like me don’t need the healthcare system anymore. While they were busy killing patients, lots of us were learning how to cure every disease including cancer. For just a few pennies. We won’t be going back to a system we don’t trust.
7/16
@CrystalDawn0109
like the question for SSI/SSDI asking you to "describe what you do in a day from the time you get up until you go to bed" um, wtf
8/16
@424gdgm2wg
9/16
@P05e1don
F A C T S
10/16
@VWEBBJR
So sorry you've had to deal with that.
11/16
@midnucas
OMG the video is much worse than the tweet already paints it
12/16
@Dopamine_Killer
People don't understand these humiliation rituals scar you for life. And also breed the worst class resentment I've seen.
13/16
@candy_all_along
I’m sorry but this is actually evil and vile behavior. Someone struggling still deserves to feel like a person, and the system is meant to keep people there. People genuinely want to see only basics for things like food stamps and I can’t imagine how someone gets so miserable in
14/16
@candy_all_along
their own lives that they think “YEAH no free handouts!” As if they’re paying for it personally. Wanting to look down on someone else that desperately must be a terrible state of mind.
15/16
@StrongholdMag
Most people have no clue what’s required to “qualify” for assistance. They truly believe you can just walk in and ask for it, and it’s yours.
16/16
@JackHates1Amend
I've literally signed up to help at these minute clinics. None of it's a humiliation ritual.
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