First, I pulled a muscle in my back. No fun. Then I got laryngitis. And after that, food poisoning. When I was getting over that, I sprained my ankle. And then I hurt my neck. And got the flu. The best part, you don't ask? I don't have health insurance, so I can't even go to the freaking doctor. /end rant
I was going to complain about my right calf having on and off pains for literally no reason lately, or my allergies, but your grocery list of ailments shut me up. Feel better gurl~
If only you could swap bodies O.o life would be so much simpler... actually, it would probably be more complex.
Yeah, but then we'll have to raise taxes to pay for it. Besides that, we're several trillions of dollars in debt right now, so we can't afford to put all of our tax paying insurance companies out of business yet.
Better to pay a tiny affordable tax every month than being utterly unable to pay any doctor' s fee. The money that goes to insurance companies now (or doesn' t, apparently) would go to doctors instead, it wouldn' t go poof. Last time I checked we still had insurance companies here. My uncle is an insurer, his house and cars are fantastic, thanks for asking. To put it shortly, it saves money in the long run. Unless you' re a libertarian who doesn' t care about cost/benefits analysis as long as the tiniest amount of coercion is involved I don' t know where you could be coming from (granted I' m no economy expert). Besides, good luck fixing the economy with sick employees.
You don't understand how most Americans' minds work, do you? Any new tax or regulation, no matter how small, will get almost the entire population trying to work against it. Obamacare, which (to my understanding) says that if you are alive, you must have health insurance, is a prime example of this. The first thing most people thought of it was that it takes away our right to not be insured, so they fought it with all their might. In fact, people are still fighting it not because they don't want to be insured but because they feel very strongly about having the option not to be insured. There have even been multiple court cases in multiple states where Obamacare was proven unconstitutional. My favorite was the one in Delaware which involved a bill requiring anybody over the age of 21 to own a gun. Now take universal healthcare and apply it to that mindset. Not only is the government taking away my right to not be insured, it's also adding a brand new tax and shutting down a pretty large amount of companies. Americans would be protesting outside the Capitol for months just to overturn that one decision. They'd fail, of course, because our government doesn't really give the **** about us that we think they do. Except it does go to doctors. The difference is that it only goes to doctors when it needs to, and that's how insurance companies make their profit. By that logic, we should also have national car care so that all the money that goes to car insurance companies now would go to mechanics instead; it wouldn't go poof. I thought it was pretty obvious that I was strictly referring to health insurance companies, which would all go out of business. It could take a complete and total moron to think that car and homeowner's insurance companies would be affected by universal healthcare. As far as I know, a lot of jobs are lost whenever a company goes out of business. The only way to keep all of those jobs would be to somehow integrate every health insurance company into the government's new healthcare system, and with a government designed to be as slow and inefficient as ours, that would take several years as well as most of the money that would be saved if a different government were to make the switch. Where I'm coming from is the fact that although universal healthcare is clearly the better system, switching over to it at this point and in this economy would be an utter disaster without over a decade of preparation and billions of dollars to go toward that preparation. You're giving lots of the reasons for why it would work for the system, but none for why the people wouldn't resist it with every fibre of their being.
Oh he' s my health insurer, the need for them hasn' t vanished. Well I just can' t take anyone who says he doesn' t care about his well being seriously. If he didn' t he wouldn' t be here to talk about it. If you managed to see how universal healthcare would be advantageous then surely there' s a way around the cultural brainwash you mentionned. I mean look, some americans liked my previous posts ! Maybe, just maybe, not all americans are as stereotipically moronic as they somehow enjoy to claim it. I' m not blind mind you, I can see from here that Obamacare isn' t spectacularly popular, but it doesn' t look like a lost cause either. But then I guess you' d know how popular it is or isn' t better than me, I don' t particularly pay attention to that and I obviously don' t live there. Now whether it would save more money to start it now or to wait for a better economic landscape ... I honnestly can' t tell. You' d have to know when and how much better things will get to do the math.
