Cover everyone? How about telling people that, if they don’t have health insurance, it’s a problem, but it’s your problem? Why make me pay? Get a good job and you will have health insurance. If you are not valuable enough in the marketplace to earn good wages and benefits, then it’s up to you to increase your value. I’m sick and tired of footing the bill for lazy slackers.
Not everyone is equipped with the attributes to do well enough in the marketplace to land and keep a job that offers good insurance. And why should affordable health insurance/care be based upon one’s ability to land such a job? What does one thing have to do with another? A lot, but it shouldn’t. People should have the right to get basic decent health care in accordance with what they can pay imo. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity. I guess this is where I differ from the standard conservative pov. Whether they are just dishwashers or burger flippers I don’t believe that responsible human beings should have to suffer in a wealthy, modern civilized nation just because they don’t have the inherent intelligence, aptitude, or social traits to land a job that his/her peers deem worthy. Healthcare is too inflated these days. For instance, 100 bucks and up just to talk with a doctor for 10-15 min and be handed a prescription? Not good.