People say that the health care bill was necessary because everyone needs to be insured. They don't like the present practice of uninsured people going to the emergency room for treatment and then having that cost passed along and amortized across the base of insured policyholders.
I have no problem with it - especially if the alternate is the utopian plan to insure everyone, which can't be done.
But what about all of the other inequities? Where is the outrage there?
I pay for schools and teachers yet don't use those services. I pay for mass transit and don't use them. We all pay for welfare, ADC, SSI, unemployment benefits, and on and on. We pay to keep people in jail. All of us who drive pay for the damage caused by uninsured motorists, too.
Many of us have life insurance, auto insurance, diability insurance, and other policies. We don't plan on collecting on any of them, and yet we pay the premiums faithfully.
We have umbrella, E & O, and workers comp policies. Again, no plans to have them kick-in.
Statistics show that nearly everyone who goes to the emergency room has insurance anyway. For the few that don't have insurance that go to the emergency room, why do you suppose they don''t have insurance? Could it be they can't afford it? Could it be that even when they are required to carry it that they still can't afford it and we'll (as taxpayers) have to continue to subsidize them?
Leave well enough alone. Repeal this ugly health care bill - and the student loan deal appended to it.
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Hi Steve, Thank you for the post. I could not agree more with what you said.
If it helps....my cat is sitting her outraged that he can't go outside. On a serious note, it's so true. The crazy has taken over and I'm not sure what to think about that.
Steve,
I believe as more and more information comes out about this new bill the more people will become angry.
Agreed! The Health Bill is a load!
Now just a side question: " What the flying F does School loans have to do with Health Care, and why would you attach a financial reform bill to a Health Reform Bill?"
JP
Yes! We all know the Tea Party is not just about health care its about everything these bastards have been doing to us for years.
I saw Obama bragging about his education bill...the most money ever spent or something like that. I prefer to turn off the TV when Obama and his regime is on!
How come "Obama" always comes up on the AR spellchecker as incorrect? Does the spellchecker know something others don't?
The old joke about how to tell if a politician is lying certainly applies to Obama...
And to answer the earlier question, the way that CBO scores allowed the price tag on the health care bill to be reduced by the school loan scheme..
Now it seems that after reporting exactly the opposite, the media is "analyzing" bill and saying that the CBO scored it wrong and it will cost much more than proposed. We already knew that.
Mary Jo,
Thanks for your agreement and support. :)
Steve
Karen,
This is progressivism at its finest. :)
Steve
Mike,
People can't too much angrier than they are. Maybe more people will join us. :)
Steve
JP,
The student loan package was not going to pass on its own. Tack it on, no problem. :)
Steve
Larry,
We know what the Tea Party is all about. The clueless will find out in November. :)
Steve
Gary,
I only watch long enough to get material for my blog. :)
Steve
Gary,
My thoughts exactly. :)
Steve
Lane,
Thanks. It also was the only way to get the student loan thing passed. :)
Steve
Dale,
We sure did. They work for Congress and only do what they are told. :)
Steve