You don’t have the moral or intellectual ability to make that choice for yourself -
so sayeth the elitists.
Becky,
Buy some damn insurance BEFORE you get sick or injured, so you don’t end up being some democrat poster child for the heartless US healthcare system
sheesh
What will happen to Christian Scientists who deny the existence of disease, and have set up a parallel system of treatment using Christian Science practitioners....and Jehovah's witnesses who refuse to accept blood transfusions?
How about those whose religion dismisses medical practice? Isn’t it somewhere in the Federalist papers about the separation of church and state?
well, there is the erroneous assumption built in that people that don’t have health insurance don’t have it because they can’t get it. The jerkoff Congressmen don’t even ask why the people don’t have it. Maybe they are self insured. A lot of companies are. Surely there are some who choose to be irresponsible and let it be someone else’s problem same as not wearing a seat belt. My mom used to pay my neice’s because her parents were too busy smoking dope to worry about health ins for their daughter. There are tons of people like that. The Democrats would like you to think those folks are worried sick about not have health insurance and they are working 2 or three minimum wage jobs just trying to get to where they can afford their house trailer, their used car payment and qualify for affordable health insurance, but that is a steaming load of delusion. many of them are “partying” “finding themselves” running through spouses, avoiding child support, trying to get over, etc.
I’m dying to know what they plan to do with the Amish, who are exempted from Social Security because their religion prohibits the owning of any type of insurance whatsoever.
Love to see the heavy hand of gov’t going after people in buggies.
I am so tired of news sources, including this one, who consistently repeat the faked statistic about the “uninsured!” Even if I support the Christian Science position on insurance WHY say there are “nearly 50 million!” IT’s totally false!
Becky, what happens when you have an accident (of your fault)and you are paralyzed from the neck down-who pays for your treatments and for future care?? What happens if you should have a stroke at age 48?? or need a transplant?
Oh I know, the taxpayer and other insured people who end up paying for your care when you declare bankruptcy
Then you will be killed.
This disgusts me.
The government should put poison in all the fruit and vegetables and the antidote in meat.
If you don’t get health insurance, you will be fined. Apparently you can opt out of having health insurance, you just can’t opt out of the re-distribution of wealth that’s built into the government plan.
“I don’t want it, either.”
But, but...that’s completely unAmerican. /s/
Dear Becky,
I’m not Christian Science, but have not been to a doctor in decades, and hate the idea of being forced into Obama’s program.
Last week I fell off a ladder and crushed my left thumb. Now I have plates, screws and wires holding all that together. Providentially, I had one of the best hand surgeons in the country. I actually burst into tears thanking the surgeon for the medical care we receive in this country, and for the wonderful care I am receiving.
In these times I have contemplated what would happen to me under Obama care. You can’t wait a year to fix these things, and I am 61 years old, probably not worth repairing under his plan.
Oh, and it had nothing to do with good health!
Do you know what kind of debt we would have without insurance?
I wonder how the Amish are going to come out in this? They don’t believe in accepting anything from the government. Up around Smicksburg, PA they have a kind of festival every summer where they sell food and baked goods and auction of furniture and other stuff. They put the proceeds into a fund that they use to cover their health costs for their entire community for the year.
In New York, insurance costs about 8x more than just about anywhere else, do to some very idiotic laws in that state.
Many go without, or wait until something happens. Then, they buy insurance. This is routine in NYS.
That sounds dangerously libertarian. We can't have the serfs talking about the "freedom" stuff. We let them say it on July 4, but that's it.
Dr. Jeffrey Anderson recently wrote in Investor's Business Daily, "Since 1970 – even without the prescription drug benefit – Medicare's costs have risen 34 percent more, per patient, than the combined costs of all health care in America apart from Medicare and Medicaid…."
Is that per year or lifetime costs? Lifetime costs might be explained by better ability to treat a patient of an otherwise fatal disease to keep them alive for another disease. A heart attack which would have killed can now be treated so you live ten more years and get cancer.
Also, there are more treatment options. What used to be an untreatable death sentence where the doctor told you to go home and not excite youself or you'll die of a heart attack, can now be treated with bypasses and stints. Would you rather save money by going back to the "go home and die" treatment? Younger people may get a MRI instead of an x-ray, or get athroscopic surgery for a joint where the 1970s doctor would hand them a cane, but a lot of treatment is focused on diseases of aging.
Tough.
Welcome to Mitt Romney's Obama's world...
Fine, but don’t demand that taxpayers cover your medical expenses in the future.