All those young healthy people are paying for the sick people like all the good drivers who don’t get into accidents pay for all those who do. That’s the concept of insurance, shared risk. But since we have a lot of financially ignorant people in the world, they would rather have a system where one hospital stay bankrupts a family for the rest of their lives.
Wow, the wingnuts really hate the guy in the White House. This thing that you’re STILL railing about was a conservative proposal by the Heritage Foundation, first enacted by Mitt Romney.
The White House announces disappointing signups for February and the Democrats lose a very winnable special election where they actually outspent the GOP by nearly $900,000 and ran a popular well-known candidate against a Christine O’Donnell-type Republican nominee.
Yes, it was so much better when so many could not afford health insurance at all. Ah, those halcyon days, when getting cancer was a death sentence if you were too poor to afford medication or you could be dumped from your plan unannounced during a serious illness or denied coverage at all because of the magic wand of “pre-existing condition”.
Yes, let’s go back to those days instead of questioning the whole profiting off of illness model of insurance. God forbid we question profitability – healthcare is a privilege, not a right and the poor have an obligation to die young, don’t they?
And if you think you were not paying for the uninsured back then, think again. It’s one of the reasons that healthcare was so jacked up. The justification was so that hospitals could make up for the loss of those who could not pay.
@metagalaxy we also don’t have an issue paying (most don’t ) because it is helping the rest of the people in the country, and you get a lot yourself as well. So start thinking about the big picture perhaps.
Obamacare is so bad even Obama does not like it. Leaked out today that the administration is not going to enforce the tax, it has secretly set up a “hardship” exemption from the personal mandate.
Michael Peterson Premium Member about 10 years ago
It’s been through the courts, silly. I guess this is what happens when people can read the funnies without having to look at a newspaper.
metagalaxy1970 about 10 years ago
Nothing is free. Over in Europe where they have “free health care” and “free education” is garbage because it all comes out of their HIGH TAXES.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 10 years ago
All those young healthy people are paying for the sick people like all the good drivers who don’t get into accidents pay for all those who do. That’s the concept of insurance, shared risk. But since we have a lot of financially ignorant people in the world, they would rather have a system where one hospital stay bankrupts a family for the rest of their lives.
danielmkimmel about 10 years ago
Wow, the wingnuts really hate the guy in the White House. This thing that you’re STILL railing about was a conservative proposal by the Heritage Foundation, first enacted by Mitt Romney.
KPOM about 10 years ago
The White House announces disappointing signups for February and the Democrats lose a very winnable special election where they actually outspent the GOP by nearly $900,000 and ran a popular well-known candidate against a Christine O’Donnell-type Republican nominee.
IQTech61 about 10 years ago
Yes, it was so much better when so many could not afford health insurance at all. Ah, those halcyon days, when getting cancer was a death sentence if you were too poor to afford medication or you could be dumped from your plan unannounced during a serious illness or denied coverage at all because of the magic wand of “pre-existing condition”.
Yes, let’s go back to those days instead of questioning the whole profiting off of illness model of insurance. God forbid we question profitability – healthcare is a privilege, not a right and the poor have an obligation to die young, don’t they?
IQTech61 about 10 years ago
And if you think you were not paying for the uninsured back then, think again. It’s one of the reasons that healthcare was so jacked up. The justification was so that hospitals could make up for the loss of those who could not pay.
Tue Elung-Jensen about 10 years ago
@metagalaxy we also don’t have an issue paying (most don’t ) because it is helping the rest of the people in the country, and you get a lot yourself as well. So start thinking about the big picture perhaps.
Mister Mean about 10 years ago
Nothing like those who do not have insurance sponging of tax payers at the local country hospital that is funded by property tax dollars
jbmlaw01 about 10 years ago
Obamacare is so bad even Obama does not like it. Leaked out today that the administration is not going to enforce the tax, it has secretly set up a “hardship” exemption from the personal mandate.
danielmkimmel about 10 years ago
It is NOT a health rationing system. There are no death panels. Stop listening to the lies on FOX Noise.