“Some lower middle class folks just can’t afford health insurance.”
Ain’t that the truth!!!
Our Governor here in Maine wants to do the same thing. If I can’t afford $1200 a month now how am I supposed to be able to when it’s mandatory?
Health care costs and health insurance costs are insane. There’s got to be an answer!?
The answer is individual responsibility for health. At least 50% of all people in hospitals at a given time are there due to self-inflicted problems: cigarette cancer, obesity, alcohol, illegal drugs, poor food choices, and so on. People expect to get medical care and “co-pay” $20 (for example), while they think nothing of spending $350 for new brakes on the car, or $200 for entertainment. Individuals expect the taxpayers will foot the bill for expensive medical care after they spend a lifetime smoking, drinking alcohol, eating bad food and neve exercising. The other major problem, besides lack of individual responsibility, is too much government involvement in medicine, which drives up prices and slows down innovation.
Funny you should mention 1200 bucks a month because that is what I would have to pay if I had insurance due to my “pre-existing” health problems. They have to sell to me but they don’t have to sell to me at a price I can afford. So, I can expect the “health police” to come for me if I can’t buy insurance. This guy is a first class communist. He needs to go back to Austria, I don’t want him here. All the fools who voted for him and didn’t vote for McClintock raise their hands! No? I didn’t think you would admit it and if you do you will make all kinds of excuses for this asshat liberal in R clothing.