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Originally Posted by philcski
I wasn't insured for 6 months until this week between the time I quit my job to move and when I got married because I have a preexisting condition which private insurance deems to be too expensive to cover (I'm diabetic, like at least 8% of the population), how do we go about rectifying situations such as that? What if I wasn't able to pay out of pocket for this like most people that would have been in my situation? Is it a GFY or should we have some sort of plan to protect our population from getting buried prematurely?
I don't normally get enthralled with public programs, such as Social Security, which I have paid a quarter million dollars into already in my career only to see $0 in the future, but this is something that needs to be done on the correct scale.
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Phil, I don't envy people without health insurance, but I do not believe that a government run health insurance that will cost taxpayers trillions is the solution to healthcare reform. Healthcare coverage is not an inalienable or constitutional right.
There are many homeless people, but the government is not responsible for providing housing to all of them.
A lot of people lost their homes in Hurricane Katrina, but the government is not responsible for rebuilding those homes.
I happen to believe in small government. We are democracy with a free market economy. The more government gets involved, the more they seem to screw the economy. I hate pork in bills and believe that our tax money is spent inefficiently. I might be more in favor of it if the Democrats cut trillions of pork in order to really say that they don't need to raise taxes and it won't cost taxpayers a dime. But I don't like when the Democrats tell me that it won't cost taxpayers a dime when that is far from the truth.
I don't agree with Republicans on everything. I happen to be staunchly pro-choice. I happen to strongly support gay marriage, which is more than Obama can say. I do not agree with the religious right and feel that the Ruplican party has moved too far to the right and has cowtowed way to much to them. My point was, and is, all I heard from Obama and supporters a year ago was change, but it was coupled with unrealistic promises, a promise to move the center when all he has done is move the left, he promised to not tax the middle class when realistically he has to raise taxes and inscrease spending to attempt to accomplish his proposals and then lies to me that he is not. I feel like I have to criticize this guy whose lack of experience is IMO damaging this Country right now.
Why has Obama not called for his party to remove a tax cheater who heads the committee that writes tax laws? What about ACORN, a fraud of an organization that he is in bed with? He claimed he was not Washington, but he has been everything that is wrong with Washington.
As I mentioned, those with life threatening conditions currently cannot be turned down by hospital emergency rooms and there are free clinics where people can get care for lesser conditions. I don't believe a government panel making life or death decisions is good solution to healthcare problems.