I'll pay the price of you leaching off the system. My lifetime career was in health insurance. I was an underwriter. It was my job to tell people who had pre-existing conditions that they could not buy our insurance. I did it for 50 years, and dozens of people died because of what I had to do to keep my employer competitive, and in business. What I did for a living is now illegal, and I could not be happier. Nobody is employed at my old company getting photographs of children who were born with a hole in their heart, like I did, from grieving parents after that child has died. So, if you want to take advantage of our desire to save lives of the truly needy, then I am sure that you can rationalize it, without help from me. You are the one who has to shave the face that you see in the mirror in the morning, not me. As for me, I am diabetic, and if I wanted to take advantage of it, I can get a $250 pair of special shoes every year. I can get a free eye exam every year. When I had regular health insurance, I could get new glasses every year. But, I did not, and I do not, because I know that somebody has to pay for it, and I don't really need that stuff, so I have no problem shaving my face every morning.
First, I don't believe you. You say people died because they were denied insurance? Names, and locations. Citations please.
I did not have insurance either, and I went to the hospital. I got a bill. I paid the bill.
I don't know of any hospital that simply let's people die if they don't have insurance. Could have sworn it was illegal to turn away people at the ER.
As for the rest of your post.... welcome to reality. When you offer free stuff to people, they take it. Why is that so hard to grasp? You setup a system where I can sign up for insurance AFTER I am sick, and have all of you people pay for it.... whose fault is that? Mine? I was against it from the start.
That's your fault. Now you are bitching at me because I'm using the system you created?
In Hawaii they created a system where if your child wasn't covered by insurance, then you could apply for the state to provide health insurance for uninsured children.
Shockingly tens of thousands of parents canceled their insurance and applied for state fund child insurance.
What part of this concept is too hard for you people to grasp? Every time you setup a system where other people pay for an individuals anything, those individuals are going to change how they live, to get that free money.
That's how that works. Has been throughout all human history.
Obama lowered the requirements to get food stamps... suddenly millions more people are on food stamps. Well no duh.
Bush and later Obama, increased unemployment compensation benefits... suddenly millions more are on unemployment compensation instead of getting a job. Well no duh.
Obama Care says that I can refuse to have insurance, go years without it, and if I ever get sick, I can sign up for health insurance AFTER I'm sick, and you premium payers have no choice but to fund me.
And you think no one is going to do that? You want to complain that others are taking advantage?
I have no problem whatsoever taking advantage of the system YOU created. I have no problem shaving in the morning, because I'm not the one that pushed this bad policy. You did.
You pushed a bad policy, and now all of you are going to pay for it. That's divine irony in my book. If you feel good about screwing yourself and every other premium payer over... that's great. But remember this... I didn't setup this system. You did. Not me.
Leftists always try to shift blame for policy failures. Food shortages in Venezuela are not the fault of bad policies... no no it was those evil farmers. Try and blame everyone but the person who pushed the policy.