If your poor, good news. The rich are paying your healthcare.

[Viper1]

Sardauk said:

Viper1 said:

Actually it's not every man for himself. You see, America leads the world in charitable donations per capita. We believe in helping ourselves. We depend on each other. It is because our patriotism is so strong that we help each other ourselves without the intrusion of unwarranted government bureaucracy in the process.

It might sounds like an odd concept to those outside the US but it works for us.

It sounds odd indeed

I understand what you mean with the charitable donations... but isn't the risk of this sytem to just maintain a status quo and not proposing real solution ?

In this economical context, how many chances have poor people to reach higher social conditions ?

 

Here in Europe it is a bit a West vs East situation. People got mad when the Union send tons of money to the east (post-communist countries) but it worked. It created new markets and a new economical situation.

You can invest tax payer money to help up an already fallen country as Europe did but pushign tax payer money for a system that is worse off that what we already have is a bad idea.  Especially when better reform is already commonly known and that's simply to get government out of it altogether and let the market work.

 

You can trace our massive cost upswing with the intervention of the government in the 70's.   Before then a family could normally tend to most of their entire healthcare problems right out of pocket.  Then government got involved by establishing HMO's and all went downhill from there.