what does the cost of a product have to do with it being fair?
not everything can be affordable to everyone.
. True but healthcare should be affordable to everyone who is an American, and does the best that they can in life.
The reality is that the industry has to charge what it has to charge to provide a certain level of care. It just is NOT possible to fit that into every single budget. And then you consider the ACA where people that do absolutely nothing in life get insured for free, then we start to have a serious problem.
I know some will argue, but health insurance, or even health care is not a right. Yes, if you go to a hospital or Dr and have the money to pay, he should have to treat you, however no treatment should be forced if you are not willing or able to pay.
Choose any other product or service in this country and try to get it for free because you dont have the money in your pocket to pay the price. You go without, the cashier at the store does not ring up your "purchase" , let you walk out without paying and then charge the next 10 people in line for your purchases. Insurance should be no different.
. I disagree with your cold take on someone being denide treatment based upon their non-ability to pay at the time of treatment. You cannot associate healthcare with any other industry as you have done here, because we are talking human beings and whether someone lives or dies. I hope you take another opinion on your idea of who should be treated and those you think who should not be treated.
No, I wont change my opinion, I have been paying for insurance my entire working life, I do not find it at all acceptable to suddenly have to be concerned if I am going to be able to continue my coverage just because some lazy bastard refuses to care for himself and expects me to triple my personal expenses to make sure he has coverage.
Where might I ask is the compassion for those that are going to lose their ability to gain health care due to the cost of insuring the worthless? Do the worthless even give a second thought to any of this? NO, its a **** you just pay for my shit.
If you are getting a subsidy of any amount you should be out there kissing the ass of the workers that are getting screwed so you can get prices that you just did not earn.
Agree, but we have to be compassionate towards people, and not think that everyone is worthless who needs help also. I don't mind helping a drowning person, but I can't allow that person to drown me while trying to help.
exactly, but what if you knew you couldnt help him when you saw him, but the government was standing there and just picked you up and threw you in regardless of your situation.
thats what the ACA is doing to people. If I have to go on it, my rates would go to 10,400 a year in premiums with 12,800 a year out of pocket before the insurance kicks in.
Now, Im not sure about everyone else but Im not embarrassed to admit that I do not have the money to do this, I would essentially be without insurance if I lose what I currently have and have to go to the ACA.
The plan looks at what someone makes, it does not look at their bills. People like me, in my situation have in some cases extended themselves to a tight limit, Yes I make good money but I also have a 2500 a month mortgage payment, 400 min electric bill, and other bills as one would expect. Ive been doing fine with it, however, if I suddenly have to go to the ACA, Something has to go. I might have to sell my house and get something smaller without property, I might have to stop funding my daughters college, I can forget about the new car Im looking at (2017 corvette. Not the Z06) I might have to stop eating out, or giving contributions to the church.
None of this is important, there are people that are going to be losing their ability to access health care, even though they are paying high premiums. My care would be limited to catastrophic expenses. No more checkups, no more care for minor problems, and most likely no more long term medications.
So when I tell you that I dont give a flying F about that person that is suddenly getting insurance for 50 bucks a month, trust me, Im losing mine so he can have his and that is just not right when Ive made sure to cover myself and my family since I started working in 1978
