“The mandate I am for is only for people who can afford it. The poor belong in Medicaid type of format. We can not have equal access to anything unless it is earned. That is communism.”
Okay, so if I can afford it, I should be required to purchase it. If I cannot afford it, I should be on medicaid.
How about I purchase it if I damn bloody well want to have it? And if I don’t have it and then suddenly need it, tough s***, it’s my decision? Requiring me to purchase it only results in me subsidizing those who don’t take care of their bodies or who are on medicaid. Or, if I do use it alot, I’ll be getting subsidized by those who didn’t need it. That’s the entire point of the mandate. Unless everyone is paying into the system, it can’t afford to provide “universal healthcare.” By default this is redistribution of wealth no matter how you paint it. By requiring everyone pay for it, like a tax just because I am alive, is damn Statism. The results are easy to discern. In Massachusetts, healthcare costs have sky rocketed and the system is largely bailed out by the federal government. It also doesn’t succeed in anything it set out to do.
I know the desire to apologize for Romney is strong these days, but jumping down this commie rabbit hole will not take you to wonderland.
No thanks.
Problem is not you personally. It is those who don’t bother with insurance then get into a car accident or hit by a serious disease like cancer and then can’t pay those humongous hospital & doctor bills. That adds to the cost of healthcare for others.
Healthcare costs are escalating everywhere, not just in Massachusetts. Serious reforms are needed such as free market competition from across state lines, tort reform, simplification of medical billing. My wife is a certified medical coder, and the system is already unnecessarily complex. Now they are in the process of making it more complicated! We all pay for all that processing of billing.