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Assume you're life-lusted and are willing to abandon every moral you have just to live. Paying for cancer treatment is also worth prison time to you.

Also assume you've exhausted all ethical fundraising options, i.e. GoFundMe, loans, etc. and that insurance won't cover treatment for whatever reason.

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[-] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll get a social welfare benefits which won't be a lot but I can probably make do for a while. I'll also get a medical insurance benefit which covers roughly 2/3 of my insurance so I'll have to pay something like €40/month myself. Those benefits will help me pay the €385 max yearly out of pocket for the care I'll need, and be done with it. That's not to say being in this situation is great in the Netherlands, but I won't go into debt and I won't lose my home (gov't guarantees mortgage to bank) and I won't have to continue to pay back my 0% interest student loans.

We're lucky. But make sure to vote.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

this implies welfare is stealing

[-] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago
[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

You have no option but to steal

(from the post title)

[-] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, damnit. I guess I've accidentally gone full right wing there.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

happens to the best of us

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