STOP using the language "pre-existing conditions" to describe medically vulnerable people. "Pre-existing conditions" IS MADE UP by the American health insurance industry so that they can deny health care to people. Use medical terms, not capitalist terms.
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Oh, how is it particularly evil or capitalist to have the concept that something existed before something else?
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Replying to @KateGladstone @anomalily @baffled_hacker
because it's literally defined as existing before health insurance. don't strawperson this argument.

May 10, 2020 · 1:25 AM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @anomalily @baffled_hacker
I don’t understand.
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It's not a good argumentative technique: "A straw man is a form of argument ... based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_…
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