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So if we're comparing, I personally know only two people here without healthcare. They don't have jobs, and won't get them because they just don't want them. Th
by trimethylpurine 10mo ago
So if we're comparing, I personally know only two people here without healthcare. They don't have jobs, and won't get them because they just don't want them. They live by buying and selling trash on eBay or similar. They could get free healthcare, but they don't want to file their taxes or fill out forms. I've offered to help them.
And I've known at least as many living the same way in Europe.
You can lead the horse to water, but you can't stop bureaucrats from discouraging it with paperwork.
Same, same.
To be fair, the paperwork is annoying enough that I'm actually paying a dentist $5k for one of them to get work done, just because I'd rather do that than fight this person to file their taxes and fill out the healthcare forms before their teeth rot out of their head. And it would cost at least as much to get an attorney do it for them.
It's just not worth it to fight with them, and the reality is that if it was easy to fill out the forms, then my healthcare costs would just go up anyway to cover all those additional people.
Either way, someone has to pay. There is no free lunch.