Healthcare isn't a business, it's peoples lives

[highwaystar101]

TheRealMafoo said:

highwaystar101 said:

 Lol, you sound just like my dad, I could have imagined them words coming out of his mouth. I don't think they are taking your life, it's just a tax to keep peoples healthcare fairly high.

 

Until you start thinking as the collection of dollars as burden on the people of the country, your political views will always be swayed towards socialism. When all you see is the good taxes do when you spend them, and not the bad they do with you collect them, of course you will want to do good things with the money.

It's the same as thinking killing an animal for food is worse then going to the grocery store and buying meat. They both come from the same place :)

All I can say is do what I did. Go bust your ass for 20 years to climb your way up to upper-middle class, only to have the government take away 1/3 of what you worked so hard for, so others don't have to work, and see if you still think "it's just a tax".

P.S. your dad is a smart guy ;)

That could have been said by my dad too.

My dad busted his hump for years too. He was born to a poor family and he spent 9 years at university to get a good job. He pays 40% tax and 12.5% national insurance, that's over half his wages and he still gets well into a six figure salary. But what he forgets is that people like him had to start from somewhere and I'm sure you are in the same boat. He always complains about people scrounging from the NHS and taking his money for education, but he fails to see that I am one of the people that he supports through taxes and he was also once in my situation.

I plan to work for 20, 30, 40 to get from my current poor state to upper middle class. And I hope that on the way I can still appreciate how I was supported by government funded health care when I was ill and there was no chance of me even paying for insurance. I hope that I can still appreciate how all my years at university were funded by people like what I become. Because I would not have stood a chance of achieving what I, or my dad, could have achieved if it wasn't for the opportunites Iwe were given by the tax payer. And I think that the appreciation for tthis gets lost at some point

All I can say is that in 30 years or so and I'm earning six figures *Crosses fingers* I can appreciate how my education and healthcare was paid for when I could not afford it that gave me the opportunity to get this far.

 

P.S. I am not supported by my Dad much for financial stuff, outside of taxes... (But he's awesome all the same)