Skogh has suffered from pain and numbness in her legs since 2004....Docs tell 83-year-old Swede she's 'too old' for treatment - The Local
American Health Care Insurance Corporations tell 17,000 people a day they are too unemployed for health care.
Clearly, based on that counter-headline we ought to completely socialize medicine, right?
Yeah, that's right, now something like 17,000 people a day are losing their HC coverage, Ozz.
Based on that dismal figure your point (while valid) probably isn't going to get much political traction in here in this brave new America we're creating.
Are they losing their coverage because they lost their job?
Why is health insurance tied to employment anyway?
The historic explaination is that there was a time when wages were frozen, and it made more sense to give people benefits (that are not taxable) than higher wages.
Why isn't it more like car insurance, where you can shop around for the company that provides what you need at the price you can afford?
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That way even if you lose your job, you'd still have your health insurance. Or am I being too naive here to think this is an option that would work?
No you're not niave, you're just making sense. And in this nation gone slightly nuts, asking questions based on having a brain makes you appear to be niave.
Friend of mine lost his job...his COBRA payments are $1800 a month.
Now imagine how much those payments would be if he was just shopping around for that insurance.
One good thing about some people's idea that we simply do nothing about HC is that sooner than most of us think, almost NOBODY regardless of what they do or who they work for, would have third party HC insurance.
Then the cost of HC would crash much as the price of real estate is crashing.
The second hand price for Porches and Mercedes formerly owned by doctors would drop like a stone, too.
The invisible hand of the market would be something to see in action, let me tall yas.
Since I'm currently healthy, I'd ALMOST enjoy seeing that happen, too.
A lot of you who are currently amployed and sanguine about the system we have now would pretty quickly discover that you're really socialists, I'll wager.