Cindy Banda faces mounting medical bills after battling breast cancer. Despite the single mother's positive outlook, the financial strain combined with the high cost of living is overwhelming.

That’s true for many Americans, as rising healthcare costs leave more families with a sinking feeling after seeing the bill for surgery or medication. Heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections, about half of registered voters said healthcare costs are a major problem for them and their families, up from a little more than one-third four years ago, according to a Fox News poll from September.

With party control of Congress at stake, registered voters are nearly twice as likely to say they trust Democrats over Republicans to handle healthcare, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from the same month. Those frustrations, combined with broader concerns over rising prices, have sapped support for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    They’re always OK with other people not having healthcare but they’ll squeal like stuck pigs if it’s taken away from them.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    She has repeatedly voted so that only the wealthy get full cancer care. Do you know how many people give up on proven treatment because of finances? Hope you enjoy the bills you vored for, bitch.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Car payments can vary wildly depending on purchase price, term and credit rating/interest rate. But if I were to guess, she got the trifecta.

      • Triumph@fedia.io
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        9 days ago

        My deepest apologies for my intended snark not being appropriately communicated through the medium of text.

    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Re: $1300 car payments:

      Many vehicles costing upward of 20k or more, probably averaging out for most makes and models to 30K +, no down payment or trade in, being pushed for a shorter term loan, and easily over 6% loan APR?

      Yup…car payments get crazy. I put 7K down and had a credit score of 83X back in 2024 when I bought my 2025 Forester at 33K and the best APR I could get was like a 5.7%. My payments are around $520/mo.

      Shit is WORSE today with inflation, tariffs, etc.

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        I just got a $19k car loan for about that APR for 5 years and am only paying ~$350. I actually could have gotten just under 3% if I used my bank, but they were too limiting in where I could buy from. My credit rating is 800+.

        • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          I used my bank and they only offered 5.6 or so at the time. Perhaps your got in at a lucky time. Not sure what bank you’re with. I’m, unfortunately, with Bank of America.

          • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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            10 days ago

            A credit union. I ended up with a loan from the bank the dealer works with though. From what I could tell, a small regional bank. Though, the dealer wasn’t in that region. 🤷

  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    “But but I said to the rapist! Go, rapist, go! Fuck that kid in the poosy! And now he come for me! Why, the rapist? Why?!”

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    Regardless of whether she voted for trump or not, no American should have to go into medical debt to live and take care of their kids. We are the richest fucking country in the world, we need to take care of our people no matter who they voted for.

    But that requires roughly $7,000 a month for utilities, mortgage, car payments and groceries, along with the two water leaks. Then, even with insurance through her job, the surgeries, chemo and radiation added up to over $25,000 that she’s been paying off, making Banda one of tens of millions of other people in the United States in medical debt.

    • hanrahan@piefed.socialEnglish
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      10 days ago

      We are the richest fucking country in the world, we need to take care of our people no matter who they voted for.

      which matters for noting if you give most of it to a few people. Such vast inequality is a cancer itself. Pikety has done so much work on that for example.

      i still remember listening to a interview with Yannis Varoufakis a couple years ago, who said he was driving through the US and his car needed some work done, so he’d stripped in a biggish town having breakfast and ends up talking to some guy, salt of the earth, stand up guy Yannis opined… who ended up letting it be known he was bankrupt, $160k medical debt, Yannis was aghast and said he must be upset at his governments health policies ? The dude was apparently taken aback and said bo, not at all, he blamed himself for being so poor, that he deserved it for not being successful.

    • freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
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      10 days ago

      And it’s not a gotcha because it’s not like democrats are pro Medicare for all anyway. It would be the exact same outcome.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      no American should have to go into medical debt to live and take care of their kids.

      If that’s what they ask for, there is no need to complain about them getting what they asked for. Stop making up apologies for those idiots. Everybody else deserve healthcare - they don’t, they are the reason Americans don’t have it.

        • A_norny_mousse@piefed.socialEnglish
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          10 days ago

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  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Time and time again conservative voters prove they have absolutely zero empathy or concern until they are personally affected by something.

    Fuck her, she got exactly what she voted for.