Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
That's why I bought insurance long before I made it--I knew my parents would have blown their own money on me if the day ever came that I needed something huge and I wasn't insured. I refused to do that to them. 
Yeah health insurance is a no win situation/catch22/rock in a hard place kinda topic.
I view it from a humane side and feel like nobody should have to suffer with a broken leg or debilitating illness, I think through out history our ancestral doctors really cared deeply for others within their communities and tribes. When someone got sick he went to the local doctor and the doctor treated him weather he had money or not. He was a healer, it was his role in the community it was his calling in life.
Fast forward to our current day where health comes in a bottle or at least claims it does with 250 other side effects..... including 6 hour erections
....Doctors are in it for the money and the ones making most of it are doing nose jobs, tummy tucks and boob jobs.....Due to the malpractice lawsuit frenzy of the 80s and 90s Doctors have to carry huge insurance policies which have them hoping and praying people get sick so the can pay the monthly premium and have enough left over to justify working 65+ hours a week and payoff student loans of 250k.
So this drives up the cost of health care....so the only way to afford it is through insuring the risk....now insurance companies are involved in our health and "helping" the doctors decide how sick we are.....soon it will be the Uncle Sam "telling" the doctors how "healthy" we are.....Sometimes I would like to give Uncle Sam a health exam.....a mental one
As a humane person I don't want to see people in pain and if I can do something about it I wanna help. If someone breaks their leg fix it if someone is ill and you can make him feel better do it.
But as a practical person I understand we have a much larger and more complicated medical system now and like most things money drives the ship. But whos job is it to ensure a whole country where there's not one doctor but 100,000s? Not to mention hospital costs, CAT scans, IVs and bed pans?
I liked it when Obama said that "everybody will have skin in the game" when trying to pass health care.....I would have liked it more if he would have "done it" not just say it.....I am cool with paying more based on my income for insurance......what im not cool with is some people pay nothing because of their income..... while others pay even less based on their citizenship...foreign
Ive heard Michelle Obama talk about healthy food choices in schools to help raise healthier children with better eating habits that will help reduce future health care costs......I applauded her......I routinely walk into over priced convenience stores and see people buying bags of chips, donuts and soft drinks.....and putting it on a foodstamps card.
I am defiantly a person who is open and willing to pay higher taxes for the benefit of others, but sometimes I do feel my kindness is taken for weakness, and all this assistance my tax dollars is supposedly doing for others is not helping them.....im starting to feel its actually holding them back from the true American dream.....because its muting their drive of self-preservation, which leads to positive work habits, which inspires self confidence and is the framework for success......maybe there just to much technology to have 7 billion people on earth.....and keep them working......housed and feed.
But if someone breaks his leg....fix it.....if he's not a US citizen send him back......If you need public assistance.....at least be able to pass a drug test.....and now that we have free birth control and abortions.......please no more babies till your able to get off public assistance and provide a stable home for the child.
Im good with that!
and stick with my low deductible, even though the ACA deductible isn't that bad....but my income level is making it pretty much a wash.
