“Who says anything about favors?”
Ummm.... I just did!
I was an air force medic (10 yrs, incidentally looking to go back on active duty in the fall), got out on the GI Bill...got my LPN, then associates degree RN, then bachelors degree RN...
I’m not complaining about being a nurse, not even asking for favors, hell I’ve got good job security.
I’m complaining about our broken health care system and people like nurses that work within the industry that can’t get the deals like well YOU say you got for 1K a year was it? Can’t even come CLOSE!
The point I was making is as a nurse I’m not allowed to see the doctor I want, go to the hospital I want...and pay humongous premiums, deductibles and co-pays. Nurses traditionally don’t whine and cry and form unions, like say teachers... it’s nothing like what people so often assume or assert!
IN FACT, my wife works in a school cafeteria and HER healthcare plan is head and shoulders over ANYTHING I can get as a nurse! ANY nurse, be it my own business, working in an ICU, what have you...
It’s not that I’m LOOKING for favors, just some common sense!
Again, I’m not for universal or gov healthcare, but to pretend what we have is working, or people continually misunderstanding the facts like: “anyone can get healthcare reagradless of ability to pay” is only going to lead to gov. healthcare!
Our system is broken. Ignoring that fact will only bring about universal socialist healthcare that much quicker!
I disagree, I will admit there are cracks in it, but to say it is broken is to have a better standard to weight it against. There are problems, but those are caused by too much government in it, the solution isn't to add more government solutions (the cause of the problem in the first place.)
Problems don't equal broken. If you believe it is broken, what standard do you weight it against. What is a real world example of a better system that doesn't have problems?