Cash for Clunkers, and Healthcare.

[Crashdown77]

I look at the healthcare thing in America from a more human point of view myself. Maybe it's expensive to have a healthcare system that applies to everyone, I have heard around a trillion dollars in fact. Which is coincedentally about how much we've currently spent on the absolutely useless war in the middle east. I have also heard that by the time we have the 2010 census, there will be 50 million Americans without ANY healthcare options at all. And let's not confuse "insured" with "covered". I am a middle class healthy 32 year old, I need a procedure for my throat, the cost of the procedure? $2,700. My co-pay? $250 + 20%. We're all math people here, so I'm not going to figure it out for you, but it's waaaaay too much for me to come up with, because I may need this procedure 3 or more times. So I just don't do it. I make pretty good money and I work for an INSURANCE COMPANY! I can't afford it! Guess how much worse it is for people who make minimum wage?

What about the small business owner that conservatives love so much, let's call him Joe, let's say he's a carpenter. Hmm. . . Anyway, Joe is a good guy, works 70+ hours a week, but can't afford the $6,000 a year that buying insurance would cost (plus copays of 10-25%). So he goes without. He cuts a finger off, goes to the emergency room. He is now bankrupt. (Hands down, lost finger would cost $100,000+ and he couldn't do his job either). Who is going to pay to retrain him? His hospital bills? Wal-Mart? Nope. You and me.

Now let's take Joan. Joan is the wife of CostCo's CEO. She has never worked so much as a day in her life. She gets her face lifted, and her tummy tucked and never has to pay a penny, or even think about it because her husband has GREAT coverage.

But you know what. It's expensive, the dems will screw it up, the government sucks and should only subsidize a millitary. The government sucks, you know who else does? AIG, Enron, CitiBank, Capital One, Healtpartners et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. . .