Why are you so hostile to someone suffering and who has lost their life? I will address some of your points:

>Government isn’t a charity and nor should it be. >Certainly it should provide a minimal safety net to >ensure people aren’t starving in the streets, but >charity is really about the local community, local >organizations, and local priorities. And giving to >charity should be voluntary, not compelled at the >point of a gun like taxes are.

For all the stats Americans like to show about high rates of giving...little of it makes it to those in need. Governemnt running essential programs is so ALL have access. Not just those a charity CHOOSES as worthy. America proves the "charity covers this" BS doesn't work. taxes are needed because people with your mindset wont do their part vountarily and pick and choose who "deserves". Maybe if people who decry such systems were more kind and helpful we wouldn't need taxes. If charity was sufficient we wouldnt be discussing this. it really boils down to people with your mindset saying "Nobody can tell me what to do".

> I highly resent someone that has been unemployed for >literally years while I took whatever shitty jobs I >could find to stay off the street. I also resent >people that never cared about buying health insurance >(for example the young and healthy that tend to avoid >buying insurance,) then they get a critical illness >and go bankrupt and blame “the system”

I worked multiple, service to society jobs. I HAD insurance which I lost with them. I did as much as I could after being disabled but things just get worse. I resent YOU framing of this as you have. It's cruel and unempathetic proving my point. Feel fortunate you were able to make it instead of punching down.

>The other problem I have is when people claim that >medical bills “bankrupted” them. Do we know what that >means? That means they didn’t have to pay any of that >money back. The debts were discharged by bankruptcy.

I didn't say I filed bankruptcy. I said I was bankrupted by medical costs. I spent most of my fairly significant life savings, earned through hard work and a frugal nature, paying for the medical effects of the surgery and surviving this long. Nothing was discharged and you are simply wrong.

>America is a place we’re you can start over, you can >rebuild, and bankruptcy isn’t some life sentence >dooming you to poverty.

If your only issue is a financial disaster its POSSIBLE to rebuild some sort of life through effort if things work out. My issues are more than financial and I can't just dig in and create as I could when I was young and healthy. You are strongly victim blaming and you don't seem to care at all how harmful your position is to suffering people. It sure harmed me. I hope whatever you are dealing with that makes you so resentful of victims gets better and that is genuine, not passive aggression. Everyone deserves peace, even those I disagree with fundamentally. Empathy is required for a society. It's not an excuse or "liberal propaganda".

I am a real person. A human being. I am not a political argument or keeping YOU down. I lost my life due to this system. I was refused help due to this system. I will most likely end things because there is no way out. How dare you twist every aspect of that essential experience into some debate to reinforce your selfish position. This is exactly WHY I have no hope. If people spent as much time HELPING in this world as they do arguing why they shouldn't help then it would be a wonderful place. It's not YOUR life that was stolen and is ending. I cannot imagine ever treating someone that way.