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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFarmers to face increased health care costs and they get injured more than regular Americans.
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— Kodiak149 (@kodiak149.bsky.social) 2026-01-01T01:53:00.626Z
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Farmers to face increased health care costs and they get injured more than regular Americans. (Original Post)
applegrove
16 hrs ago
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Farming is the third most dangerous industry after construction and transportation.
Ocelot II
16 hrs ago
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Ocelot II
(128,944 posts)1. Farming is the third most dangerous industry after construction and transportation.
https://clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-podcast/danger-farm-whats-putting-workers-such-high-risk. Lots of hazardous machinery - tractors and machines with PTO shafts like grain augers, suffocation in grain bins, carcinogenic herbicides, getting trampled or gored by livestock, etc. And now, apparently, face-eating leopards. If anybody needs health insurance it's farmers.
Norrrm
(3,942 posts)2. MAGAs want to repeal Obamacare?

underpants
(194,727 posts)3. A final sweep of farm assets.
Those useless eaters were taking up all that multinational land.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/10/08/jd-vance-acretrader/
Iggo
(49,619 posts)4. Can I be there when you tell farmers they're not regular Americans?
That oughta be a hoot!
Ocelot II
(128,944 posts)5. According to MAGA, farmers are actually the *only* "regular Americans."
But yes, "regular Americans" probably wasn't the best choice of words.
Iggo
(49,619 posts)6. I'd actually call them exceptional Americans. But don't tell them that, 'cause I don't mean it like they'd take it.
I still think itd be hilarious to watch em jump when told theyre not regular Americans, though.