Focus in on a cigarette smoking, meth using, obese guy sitting on a couch drinking beer.
Explain that all hospitals MUST treat this guy, for emergency care, NOW.
Explain that bankruptcy is the right course, and often an honorable course, for anyone who finds that they can not pay their medical bills.
Then ask if ALL of us should pay thousands of dollars more, every year, in taxes, so obese drug addicts and alcoholics can have the SAME health insurance as those who WORK FOR A LIVING and LIVE A RESPONSIBLE LIFE!
“Then ask if ALL of us should pay thousands of dollars more, every year, in taxes, so obese drug addicts and alcoholics can have the SAME health insurance as those who WORK FOR A LIVING and LIVE A RESPONSIBLE LIFE! “
Do you have an individual policy or does your employer pay for part of it?
Many people have pre-existing conditions, or perhaps a brush with something serious, like cancer, and cannot afford health insurance.
The GOP is going to have to do more than simply oppose nationalized healthcare. They are going to have to find a way to cover folks who presently are unable to purchase coverage, but want to.
I think the GOP is simply going to seek to perpetuate the status quo? Over time, this is a losing position, and may well be already. If there is no alternative to socialized medicine (besides the status quo) then we will get socialized medicine.