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Healthy young people should not be condemned to economic poverty to maintain sick people.

fzeroracer 8y ago
It's funny then. Why am I, a healthy young person, condemned to economic poverty because my parents have poor healthcare as a result of the sham that is the US healthcare system? Tell me. Can you explain why that is OK in your narrative?
- sheepmullet 8y ago
  Because you have made the choice to look after your sick parents? I haven’t made the choice to look after your parents.
  - fzeroracer 8y ago
    It seems you've managed to miss the point entirely. Everyone gets older. Everyone gets sicker and medical issues start to crop up as they get older. The people that then have to deal with medical bills are the children and relatives. Meaning you have a choice to make: Go bankrupt helping your family, or maintain your status by abandoning their health. I hope your family never gets ill because otherwise you'll either end up financially bankrupt or heartless.
    - sheepmullet 8y ago
      > Everyone gets sicker and medical issues start to crop up as they get older. I disagree. I’m old enough to have been around before we had so many health problems. It is one of the main drivers of our quickly increasing health costs. When I was growing up we had smoking and that’s pretty much it. > It seems you've managed to miss the point entirely. Most people will change their lifestyle to help their immediate family when they wouldn’t change to help taxpayers as a whole. > I hope your family never gets ill It’s far too late for that - I’m an old man and I’ve seen lots of people I love pass away.
- conanbatt 8y ago
  Because a healthy young person bearing the burden of the parents does not solve the "sham of the US health care system" and shifts the cost mostly from the older to the younger, which with lower incomes are pushed into lower quality labor and lesser jobs, as they cannot be employed with health benefits. A rich 60 year old man takes 100k medical treatments from medicare and a poor 18 year-old either has no coverage at all or pays an innordinate amount of insurance out of his salary. How can people justify doing such a blatant robbery of the poor.

It's funny then. Why am I, a healthy young person, condemned to economic poverty because my parents have poor healthcare as a result of the sham that is the US healthcare system? Tell me. Can you explain why that is OK in your narrative?

sheepmullet 8y ago
Because you have made the choice to look after your sick parents? I haven’t made the choice to look after your parents.
- fzeroracer 8y ago
  It seems you've managed to miss the point entirely. Everyone gets older. Everyone gets sicker and medical issues start to crop up as they get older. The people that then have to deal with medical bills are the children and relatives. Meaning you have a choice to make: Go bankrupt helping your family, or maintain your status by abandoning their health. I hope your family never gets ill because otherwise you'll either end up financially bankrupt or heartless.
  - sheepmullet 8y ago
    > Everyone gets sicker and medical issues start to crop up as they get older. I disagree. I’m old enough to have been around before we had so many health problems. It is one of the main drivers of our quickly increasing health costs. When I was growing up we had smoking and that’s pretty much it. > It seems you've managed to miss the point entirely. Most people will change their lifestyle to help their immediate family when they wouldn’t change to help taxpayers as a whole. > I hope your family never gets ill It’s far too late for that - I’m an old man and I’ve seen lots of people I love pass away.
conanbatt 8y ago
Because a healthy young person bearing the burden of the parents does not solve the "sham of the US health care system" and shifts the cost mostly from the older to the younger, which with lower incomes are pushed into lower quality labor and lesser jobs, as they cannot be employed with health benefits. A rich 60 year old man takes 100k medical treatments from medicare and a poor 18 year-old either has no coverage at all or pays an innordinate amount of insurance out of his salary. How can people justify doing such a blatant robbery of the poor.