Soleron said:
HappySqurriel said:
Soleron said:
HappySqurriel said:
While I'm against universal healthcare, having government provided health insurance for all citizens to cover non-preventable illnesses and injuries is reasonable ...
After all, preventable illnesses and injuries represent the bulk of healthcare costs which means this insurance would not be that expensive; and since they couldn't prevent the illness or injury the moral hazzard is fairly minimal. |
What is the difference between those two? Do you mean everything except smoking and obesity related illnesses? I don't think people choose to do those things based on whether the state would pay for treatment or not.
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No, non-preventable illnesses and injuries are actually relatively rare ... Most illnesses and injuries have a large element of preventability to them.
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OK. The outcome is the same though, you get otherwise working age people unable to work because of health issues they can't afford to fix. Whether it was their fault or not I think it's desirable that they be back working ASAP.
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If it wasn't for Medicaid, I would still be laid up, and not recovering, from a degenerative disk in my back, in ongoing perpetual pain in my leg. The disk was removed, and I have been trying to recover still. I ended up losing a part-time janitor position because of the disk. I am hoping to get some work at home tech support position by sometime September. As it is now, I can at least do more.
Of course, I had some yahoo on the Internet, despite all this, end up going I should kill myself so his taxes would be lower and he wouldn't have to listen to me whine.
