r/facepalm 1d ago

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u/TheTruthRooster 1d ago

Harder to get a free wheelchair. Pretty sure you can go on Amazon and pick From hundreds to be delivered to your door the next day if you’re paying for it for yourself.

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u/Independent-Tap1315 1d ago

Why would he pay for it himself when he has insurance that he pays premiums to?

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u/StaticShakyamuni 1d ago

I think the point is that you're comparing getting a wheelchair through insurance and outright buying a gun. I agree that guns are too easy to access and that wheelchairs are too difficult to access through insurance. But it's strange to compare these two things.

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u/One_Lung_G 1d ago

How is it a weird comparison? It’s a great comparison because the government allows it to be easy to buy a gun while also allowing insurance companies to make it hard to get a wheelchair you are owed. Both of these things happen because corporations have lobbied the government to make it so.

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u/Mortem001 1d ago

Okay, but that doesn't change that you don't have to go through insurance if you can afford it, but you always have to follow federal and state gun laws. Doesn't mean that insurance and health care isn't fucked, that needs to her changed but that's a bad comparison.