Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Hey friends, welcome back. Missed yall.
I went to the hospital recently, the very first time since being laid off a few years ago and was completely thrown off with the bill.
And by bill, I mean the many billllsssss, I received.
I had been avoiding going to the doctor for as long as possible without even realizing it, and when I finally went, I realized, how legitimately out of touch i was. I had had insurance for the previous 10 years with no gaps and didn't know how bad it was out here.
it made me fall down a rabbit hole of trying to understand what the hell we did to the American healthcare system to be treated this way.
this video is part one of those findings.
hint: nothing. we did nothing other than exist under a for profit system loyal to shareholders.
ive been looking for resources to share to get activated and plugged in i and found
@OneNationOvercharged as one of the orgs already doing a lot of work in this space,
if anything in this video resonated with you, check them out and check out part two of this series in a few weeks,
onenationovercharged.com
I know right now is such an insane time for a lot of us and so many of us have no clue what to do or how to even process so next week we will have much more of a deep dive and tackle the topic:
what happens next when fascism wins elections?
See you in the next one.❤️
—
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research links❤️:
- Eisenhower Press Conference, June 19, 1957: archive.org/details/cabeurfm_000003
- Eisenhower Farewell Address, 1961:
archive.org/details/DwightD.Eisenhower-FarewellAddressmilitary-industrialComplexSpeech
- NPR Throughline: "History Of Employer-Based Health Insurance In The U.S." npr.org/2020/10/07/921287295/history-of-employer-based-health-insurance-in-the-u-s
- Internet Archive TV News: archive.org/details/tv
- Eisenhower Presidential Library digital holdings: archives.gov/findingaid/presidential-library-explorer/list/pl-dde
- Eisenhower Video Archive: eisenhowervideoarchive.org
- Internet Archive Stock Footage: archive.org/details/stock_footage
- Internet Archive Moving Image / Cultural & Academic Films : archive.org/details/movies
- AEI: "Kill the Tax Exclusion for Health Insurance": aei.org/articles/kill-the-tax-exclusion-for-health-insurance
- NCBI Bookshelf: "Origins and Evolution of Employment-Based Health Benefits": ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989
- Cato Institute: "End the Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance": cato.org/policy-analysis/end-tax-exclusion-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-return-1-trillion-workers-who
- EveryCRSReport: "The Tax Exclusion for Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Issues for Congress": everycrsreport.com/reports/RL34767.html
- Petrie-Flom Center: "The Once and Future Cadillac Tax": https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2015/10/15/the-once-and-future-cadillac-tax/
Hey friends, welcome back. Missed yall.
I went to the hospital recently, the very first time since being laid off a few years ago and was completely thrown off with the bill.
And by bill, I mean the many billllsssss, I received.
I had been avoiding going to the doctor for as long as possible without even realizing it, and when I finally went, I realized, how legitimately out of touch i was. I had had insurance for the previous 10 years with no gaps and didn't know how bad it was out here.
it made me fall down a rabbit hole of trying to understand what the hell we did to the American healthcare system to be treated this way.
this video is part one of those findings.
hint: nothing. we did nothing other than exist under a for profit system loyal to shareholders.
ive been looking for resources to share to get activated and plugged in i and found
@OneNationOvercharged as one of the orgs already doing a lot of work in this space,
if anything in this video resonated with you, check them out and check out part two of this series in a few weeks,
onenationovercharged.com
I know right now is such an insane time for a lot of us and so many of us have no clue what to do or how to even process so next week we will have much more of a deep dive and tackle the topic:
what happens next when fascism wins elections?
See you in the next one.❤️
—
📌 Subscribe for deep dives on politics, media, labor, culture, and the stories we’re told and some rollerskating too.
🖤 Join the The Tragic Optimist’s Club newsletter: dasiasade.substack.com
📚 Read with us — We the Public Book Club: fable.co/club/the-public-square-with-dasia-washington-229317109835
🛼 Learn to skate: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-dIFW_k3wDPDQOm1P1on4Ts-_M4GBSgS
🔥Learn to skate with structure with my skate course:
dasiasade.com/products/adult-beginner-rollerskate-course-roll-with-the-flow
☕ buy me a coffee/support this work: buymeacoffee.com/dwdoesitk
📷 IG - instagram.com/dasiadoesit
🎵TT - tiktok.com/@dasiadoesit
#PennyForYourThoughts #DasiaSade #dasiadoesit #tragicoptimism #tragicoptimist #OneNationOvercharged
research links❤️:
- Eisenhower Press Conference, June 19, 1957: archive.org/details/cabeurfm_000003
- Eisenhower Farewell Address, 1961:
archive.org/details/DwightD.Eisenhower-FarewellAddressmilitary-industrialComplexSpeech
- NPR Throughline: "History Of Employer-Based Health Insurance In The U.S." npr.org/2020/10/07/921287295/history-of-employer-based-health-insurance-in-the-u-s
- Internet Archive TV News: archive.org/details/tv
- Eisenhower Presidential Library digital holdings: archives.gov/findingaid/presidential-library-explorer/list/pl-dde
- Eisenhower Video Archive: eisenhowervideoarchive.org
- Internet Archive Stock Footage: archive.org/details/stock_footage
- Internet Archive Moving Image / Cultural & Academic Films : archive.org/details/movies
- AEI: "Kill the Tax Exclusion for Health Insurance": aei.org/articles/kill-the-tax-exclusion-for-health-insurance
- NCBI Bookshelf: "Origins and Evolution of Employment-Based Health Benefits": ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989
- Cato Institute: "End the Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance": cato.org/policy-analysis/end-tax-exclusion-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-return-1-trillion-workers-who
- EveryCRSReport: "The Tax Exclusion for Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Issues for Congress": everycrsreport.com/reports/RL34767.html
- Petrie-Flom Center: "The Once and Future Cadillac Tax": https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2015/10/15/the-once-and-future-cadillac-tax/
