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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
Put it to ya in a very basic way. If there was more economic justice(especially in your area of the country,) then they would gladly participate in getting the medical insurance they need. I would like this to be treated as a necessity, and not as something like a cable bill, or car insurance. You don't need cable or a car to survive, but medical care is a necessity. Notice how you don't complain about people not paying their police bill, their fire bill, or their national defense bill? To me it's a necessity like the police dept., the fire dept., and national defense. Most other countries treat medical care that way. We are unique in wanting a person's level of medical care to be linked to income. I think most things in life should be determined by ones income(type of housing, owning a car, the city you live in, whether you eat steak or not etc., etc. etc.) I just don't agree that one's level of medical care should have anything to do with their income or economic situation. That's one of the reasons I think it's so important to limit illegal immigration. The Democratic Party is dead wrong to encourage illegal immigration while demanding better healthcare for all citizens. We all know that the better healthcare won't be limited to just American Citizens. Their inconsistent on this. Do you think countries that have national healthcare just let anybody act as if they are citizens? They don't. It's not wrong or racist to control who is in our country. To me, medical care is one of the best investments a country can make. It's something people badly need, but they don't like to go use unless they have to. Most people don't enjoy going to get medical care. So, the abuse would be on the provider side, and that's a lot easier to control than on the user side.
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again, not sure what you mean by economic justice. i know what my employees make, and i know what the company pays for their insurance, and frankly, there's no reason for them to turn it down. but they usually say 'i never get sick, why should i get it?' they don't see a need for it-then they have an illness or injury and the light comes on. then they get hit with a whopper of a bill, or hit with waiting 15 months because they opt down the road to get coverage, but pre-existing conditions come in to play. thing is, too many do treat it like it's just another bill-one that they can avoid. i've always treated it as an absolute necessity, and we've always had it. those in lower income familites, etc, already get coverage. between Arkids and the feds, people down here are fully covered. hell, those on the upper tier of arkids even get orthodontic treatment. i'm paying for other kids' braces, and my own insurance doesn't even cover it....
and i don't see how there wouldn't be abuse-look at your home state and the recent news about hospitals out there billing the state and federal medicaid and medical programs for health care that never happened. millions of dollars worth billed.