Well, if we on the right don’t do something about the healthcare mess, we will be to blame for them taking over.
People should NOT have to go into bankruptcy because of medical issues. Especially those of us who have played the game by the rules all our lives only to face financial disaster in our 50’s or 60’s.
The left is counting on people facing a choice between painful and slow death, or bankruptcy, to start thinking that ‘big government’ and ‘healthcare as RIGHT’ looks better than the ‘tough crap’ that seems to be the cluster offered by the right.
No one who’s worked an honest job all their life should face poverty or lack of medical care in their last decades; if the GOP can’t deal with that then welcome to ‘democratic socialism’.
“...the healthcare mess....”
hard to call it a mess when 70% of the country is satisfied with their current healthcare situation.
Though I do agree that the current situation with numerous intertwined third party payers is inefficient & wasteful.
Also realize that a certain percentage of our late in life healthcare problems are caused by our earlier in life lifestyle choices. Any honest MD will tell you that! My MD son-in-law sees this all the time. People come to him after a life of heavy drinking, smoking & drug use and now they’re in the 60s-70s want him to fix it all!
The government doesn’t help with is heavy subsidies to the sugar industry.