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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
I think I see things 90% your way. The only thing I don't see eye to eye with you on is looking out for the poor bastards who work full time and can't access health care. It's because of the government making it so ridiculously expensive. I am completely against the government intervening in order to fix what it is causing, or having them in control of anything.. I am no socialist... but what would you propose that we do for that type of person?
I have only had a normal person's job one time, for three months. But what I learned from that was that most hack employees at larger companies are purposely kept just a cunthair shy of 40hr weeks... they did that to me so I could not have any benefits. I would literally work 39.5hrs every week. You either swallow it, or no play for you.
So what is the solution? The masses allowed it to get to this point and they should just "take their medicine" and deal with what they have allowed to happen? Or, we should do something about people working full time and not having healthcare? Or ...
It's not an easy problem to deal with.. at all
And here I am debating it like everyone else now so I am just as stupid as the rest of you
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I'm not against healthcare reform. It needed it 10 years ago.
I am strongly against the mandate, I don't like the fact that the government thinks they can oversee it when they prove time and time again they are basically incompetent.
The root causes of the high costs were ignored. No tort reform, not opening up interstate competition. This version of healthcare reform is nothing but another moneygrab. I read yesterday that one of the large carriers is florida realized it would not work for them and dumped 300,000 people that did have health insurance.
Lastly, I really didn't like they way the democrats installed it. All the backroom deals and arm twisting just to get their side to pass it. All that while the unemployment rate was at 9%+. It set the exact wrong tone for this administration. I said it 4 years ago when it passed that Obama will be on his heals his entire term because of it. He let Pelosi and Reid screw up his presidency.
The solution was to mandate steady and reasonable pricing from state to state on the costs of healthcare.