CommunistHater said:
Crashdown77 said:
$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. . . |
Crashdown with Xbox Live
You bought games and live and xbox, but you scoff at doctors fees
I guess you do need a nanny state to take from your paycheck, so you can't spend that money |
Ya got me there! Your well thought out counterpoint to my statement both dazzled and amazed me! Perhaps I should be a communist hater too! I think you might have missed the point. I was trying to show that what we've got isn't working, and I believe having a government plan alongside the private plans would help cover the uninsured and drive down prices. I never said I want a nanny state, I just think that we waste a lot of money on a lot of programs and we don't get any health care out of it, and that sucks. I pay a lot of taxes and I never get to enjoy the benefits (yes I know I drive on the roads and such, I'm just being exaggerative).
As far as your statement about my quote, I feel you didn't want to respond in kind to my post, so you picked what you felt was a flaw in my logic and attacked that. What should we do about getting healthcare to everyone without making a "nanny state"?
