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Originally Posted by GregE
This might come as something of a revelation, but people with healthy lifestyles sometimes get sick too.
Moreover, when they're precluded from healthcare access early on they end up costing somebody (i.e. the taxpayers) a hell of a lot more when they're dragged half dead into the ER.
It's like they say in that old Midas commercial, you can pay now or you can pay later.
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Yep, and when I get sick I pay for it. You know, like a person is supposed to.
This might come as a revelation to you...insurance is NOT healthcare.
And for the first half of my adult life, I did what my parents and grandparents did before me: Paid money when I went to the doctor and the hospital.
And then the govt. got involved with HMO's back in the 1980's...which were supposed to make health care better and cheaper.
What we got was hospitals and pharmaceutical companies price-gouging the American people and making it so you can't go to the doctor at all unless you have insurance.
In the case of healthcare the old Midas commercial could be modified to say this: I paid for it before, I pay more for it now, AND I'm paying even higher costs for it later.
It seems to be a lose/lose situation.
Before ObamaCare was passed, the supporters of it said that once we all had insurance the prices would go down because there would be a bigger pool of people insured and it would stop people from skipping out on bills at hospitals.
Then after it was passed, and I say: "Wait, my insurance premium is skyrocketing...not going down", the same people say: "Insurance rates always went up, it's no big deal"
Well, if that's the case...then what was the point of all of this?
It sure does appear to me that the whole thing is just a big gift wrapped present to the big corporations that own hospitals, Big Pharma, and Big Insurance.
