To think eventually, UK could become a part of the USA?

[CyanSeal]

Depending on how Trump gets on … he doesn’t seem shy about taking over other countries. On paper it would make sense globally for the UK and the USA to become one … USA, Canada,UK - what a superpower that would be.

on top of this, there is a hell of a lot of UK support for Trump, I don’t even think the British would object to a takeover on the whole

Seems far fetched I know - but less far fetched that it did a few years ago

Who cares ?

I'm not fear not. It made me laugh, in a you what now way. Eg you see someone squaring up with tough talk.. that kind of thing.

(points to username)

No offense, but even though we have a lot of common history and love most of your pop culture, I don’t think we want you as part of the US. You’re fine doing your own thing across “the pond.”

I'm in the UK. I was responding to the poster who was extolling the US health insurance system and sneering at the publicly funded NHS in the UK.

This!

😂😂

I think it's bots from further afield. Look at how some of these exchanges are going.

Even the insured have issues:

It depends on their circumstances. If they're low income, they can apply for Medicaid, which will cover medical expenses retroactively for a time. If they don't qualify for Medicaid and genuinely can't pay, the hospital may write it off as charity care, which non-profit hospitals are required to do. Or they may owe the balance.

92% of the population has either private insurance or government provided insurance. The other 8% is a problem. The Affordable Care Act coverage offers heavily subsidized private coverage based on income, but it's not retroactive. People can't be forced to obtain coverage.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-284.html

How do you suggest anyone sort out the migrant crisis?

Only around 5% of immigrants every year are 'undocumented'. The rest come with a visa. Ie, they're invited. A fair percentage of 'undocumented' immigrants get granted refugee status. The majority of the rest get deported (or that's where we're headed now we have a government in place who's addressing the issue).

What do you suggest the UK does? `Lets people drown in the channel? Stops hearing asylum claims?

By the way when a right wing person says 'no one has the balls to do anything about it', or 'doesn't have the courage to make a hard decision', they're usually referring to someone doing something cruel that breaches another person's human rights. Trump would be that person to do that, because he's basically completely amoral.He has no conscience. There's usually a nasty price that a country pays for putting someone like that in power.

@EasternStandard - your engagement is showing. UK citizens calling for Trump to take us over is ridiculous. They are melts!

I'll play.

So will we be a republic or can we convince them to be a kingdom? If kingdom, King Trump the First, the one and only. Or King Charles III with seconded King Harry the first? Harry is already there so that would be seamless.
Or perhaps we can join Russia. Or Equatorial Guinea. The despots are many. Or even Rwanda. We've already given them lots of free money (thanks Tories).

Op, whatever you are smoking, snorting, drinking, injecting. I want the same

My what now? No idea what the first line is meant to mean

I haven't taken the thread seriously. It's bumpf on a chat site not policy

I don't know why we don't ask the Chinese. Their AI is cheaper. And they have socialised medicine

Satire alert

I’d love it. It going to happen of course. But I’d be moving to a different state for sure!

But you might fall in the middle: too poor to get insurance and too rich to qualify for Medicaid.

And end up like my friend did. She broke her ankle, and came too in hospital. Soon as they knew she couldn't pay they bandaged her ankle like you might do with a mild sprain, and sent her home telling her that if she walked on it before it was mended she'd probably be disabled for life.

Great system.

In that case, she would have qualified for subsidized coverage under the ACA.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/aca-subsidy-calculator#:~:text=Subsidies%20are%20calculated%20in%20two%20ways:%20*,insurance%2C%20no%20matter%20how%20much%20you%20earn.

Maybe time to up the medication, OP 🤦🏼‍♂️

You know Trump has abolished this?

I'm sorry, but how can you be OK with people 'owing the balance' when that balance can be hundreds of thousands of dollars, which will put them in irrecoverable debt? How can a system like that in one of the wealthiest countries in the world be anything but morally deeply dubious?

I'm not wedded to the NHS - I'm Dutch and the Netherlands has an insurance based system. The difference is that it doesn't leave people in catastrophic debt.

Nobody should have to rely on charity for something as essential as healthcare.

No. Can you provide a link showing that the ACA has been repealed or the subsidies eliminated?

Why don't they have savings and a rainy day fund?

Eeeeeeeewwwwww!

Would never happen. Nobody wants that apart from weirdos like Darren Grimes.

Because life happens. Some people are excessively poor and do not earn enough to create extravagant savings funds.

on top of this, there is a hell of a lot of UK support for Trump, I don’t even think the British would object to a takeover on the whole

Anything is true when you lie.

You must be bored @CyanSeal