“Our national health care is just going to be paradise on earth. If you don’t believe me you just go check out the emergency room of your local charity hospital. Look at all of the people there waiting to be treated for something that a spoonful of cough medicine or a squirt of Neosporin could cure. That ought to convince you.”
I’m not for socialized medicine, but I think all the folks that are against it need to ask themselves if they are willing to pay the full cost of an individual health insurance policy.
I think socialized medicine is inevitable in this country - and when it happens, employers will jettison their plans. If we are lucky we will be allowed to purchase our own private health insurance, which is mostly illegal in Canada.
There is a good chance that freed from having to care for every slob that walks in the emergency room, private health care plans, doctors, and hospitals will actually become affordable.
Today, it simply is not - unless you rely on the government, or your employer to pay it for you.
WTH are you smoking?
When “it” happens, employers will be forced to comply with mandated coverages by law.
Almost happened under hillary care. There will be no choice there.
Why do you NEED a health insurance policy? I don’t understand this. If you make enough money to pay $3000 a year in insurance (or even $2000, or $1000), then you make enough to pay for your own visits to the physician, which would be what? Once a year per person times four in the family? That would work out to what, $400 at most? If you need meds, there are generics and plans available through the pharma companies themselves. And, if anything catastrophic should happen like a heart attack or cancer, there is the option of a payment plan, or charitable organizations. Honestly, I wonder what would happen if more people just didn’t pay the ridiculous rates for health insurance and took care of things themselves?