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This is very true. That said, I'd rather be in the pool of healthy, employed people than the unemployed moochers ;)
by goofygrin 18y ago
This is very true.
That said, I'd rather be in the pool of healthy, employed people than the unemployed moochers ;)
- run4yourlives 18y agoDon't plan on growing old then. :-) The best part about a government plan is that in the grand scheme of things, moochers are a small subset of the picture. It poses problems for sure, like "crowded" emerge rooms, (brackets because the crowds vanish if you have a real issue) but overall the numbers all show that it's cheaper both to the consumer and to the system overall.
- goofygrin 18y agoLike I said our system is screwed up, but getting rid of it is a HUGE ordeal with millions of jobs likely to be cut and a HUGE expense to cut over to it. And in this country, where big pharma and big medical business runs the show (congress, etc.) it is likely that a "universal" healthcare system will result in a crappy, inefficient implementation that everyone will hate.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoLook both ways before you cross the street. You're only one car accident away from being disabled for life.
- goofygrin 18y agoAnd this has 0 impact on the cost of my health insurance. It has a real cost in terms of long term care insurance (which is horrendously expensive, but not what the OP was asking about).