I understand Jim Thompson is for repealing Obamacare.
I understand I am disagreeing.
I even wrote him a note saying how very much I like this website, and that I understand I am putting everything on the line by daring to speak up on the issue. I have donated here, more than once, and it is the number one site I go to all the time.
But on this one issue, I respectfully disagree.
I told him that. I really, really hope I do not get zotted, it would be a horrible experience. But I feel strongly that every single American needs health insurance.
Every one.
From somewhere.
I know about the issue you raised. I understand I am taking my FRness into my hands, with what I am saying now.
But there it is.
I have been here since 2005. It is my main source of news. I would not know what to do without FR.
But on this one issue, I have my own view. I am grateful the boss has allowed me to state it here, and I am 100% a FReeper.
In fact I glad to be back in the states, for the next fundraising which starts next week, and I will be sending in my contribution.
Just saying.
Anyone reading this, is welcome to donate next week, as well.
:D
Oops.. Wrong son
Don't every American "deserve" to have food, clothing, shelter, a job, a car, a BIG SCREEN T.V., an iPhone, a laptop and a computer, cable T.V., two months a year of vacation, big pensions, and more? /s
People who are penurious, DO get FREE health care; no insurance required and they don't even have to be citizens!
The ONLY reason that many employers offer health insurance plans, today, is because during WW II, raises were frowned on, so the Unions pushed for employer health insurance. That was the start of it all and most companies didn't offer such plans for a long time.
People bought their own insurance and/or made deals with doctors...to pay off bills, monthly.
Some fraternal and charitable ethnic clubs, which started here, in the mid 1800s, raised money, through dues, balls, picnics, and other such things, not only set up funds for widows and orphans, paid a kind of unemployment benefits, burial benefits, bought large swath in cemeteries, for lowish prices so that they could be offered to the members at lower costs, AND they even donated beds and/or floors of hospitals, so that their members could uses the facilities and those beds, when they or a family member was in need of such things.
So please explain to me,as well as the other posters, just WHY government "owes" us some kind of health insurance.