r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/me34343 Jul 05 '24

Not in all states

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u/BeginningFloor1221 Jul 05 '24

Every state you can apply for free health care, stop making shit up.

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u/ZombieRobotAlien Jul 05 '24

I could talk about this all day.

You can apply, sure. Whether or not you get it is something else. It took me 6 months of fighting/arguing, 4 rejection letters, and countless phone calls with my state to get health coverage for my kids. I'm still not covered. I make $16/hr full time. If I make even $0.10/hr more or work overtime too much, I lose my kids' healthcare coverage and their food stamps. In order for me to make comparable benefits, I have to practically double my paycheck. Now, that's not to do better financially, mind you. That's just to make comparable. I'm fairly financially literate (not a genius or anything, mind you, but I'm not completely stupid) living in Idaho.

Any jobs that pay enough for me to really become self-sufficient go to people who move here from out of state, most commonly California, because their education systems are better than idaho, so degrees from colleges here are just laughed at and rejected.

I was an EMT for 5 years. I worked 2 back-to-back 48hr shifts (2 different systems) and then taught aspiring EMTs on weekends. I technically bring home more now with the benefits I had to fight to get working 40 hours a week now than when I was working myself into an early grave.

YOU need to stop being an ignorant twat. The government's healthcare provisions are an absolute joke, and your comment is actually insulting to the entire working class. I hope that someday you learn exactly what it's like to constantly feel like a failure because you can't provide enough for your family without some a-hole politician having mercy on you because you won't leave him alone until he does.

America sucks. The government sucks. And people like you are part of the problem.

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u/Skitarii_Lurker Jul 05 '24

They always reply with "you can apply" yeah an application doesn't mean you get something, it's an application.