JakeYonkel wrote:Listen, my wife works for the public school system and the Blue Cross insurance they provide to employees IS good coverage but is ridiculously expensive. They jacked the costs up in September so we had to take a lesser plan or else half her paycheck would have been being taken for healthcare. So now we actually have pretty shitty coverage.
If this shit passes and people like us are offered some sort of subsidy to keep our private insurance and offset the cost, I'll be all over that shit. If everybody else gets to benefit and our taxes are paying for you bet I'll be benefiting from it as well.
And I'm well aware that scummy people are already getting free health care and ANYBODY can walk into an emergency room and get care. And we're paying for that.
But that being said, I don't see why that needs to be changed. Emergency care is covered. Private health insurance IS a privilege. You don't have to be sick and die in the street. Go the fucking hospital.
This shit just means more taxes, which the majority of America does NOT want.
"Scummy people" eh? Fuck you very much, Jake. You won the lottery and talk down to the rest of us? Your wife is the actual breadwinner, you pick up the by-chance equivalent of a big welfare check. I don't begrudge you that, but come on, you ain't slaving for your money, so don't act like you are.
Why change? Let's see... someone goes to the ER because they have the flu, and no insurance. The ER is going to generate a bill in the thousands of dollars, testing for everything from flu to heart disease, to cover its ass liability-wise - which ultimately is passed on to taxpayers.
Now if we had national healthcare instead, they go to the NHC clinic, see their regular doctor (which they only HAVE because of NHC), who does basic testing for - wait for it - FLULIKE SYMPTOMS!
The bill is $100, not $5,000. Now multiply that scenario times however many million ER visits are not necessarily emergencies, and think of those who DO have emergencies who might not die because the ER is clogged with flu cases and hangnails, and you begin to see why what we have now is so inefficient.
Big Pharma and Big Medicine is raping us all, has been for decades. It's time to make them stop it, and go back to making a very good living, not plundering those who support it all, the working public.