I don’t disagree with you - I was only pointing out that this would be a way to deal with the leeches in our society. gitmogrunt sums up the way I feel at #11. I am opposed to it, but I am also sick and tired of paying for folks who want to live off my labor. I have worked damned hard, lived within my means and honored my commitments. My wife and I enjoy a good life. If anyone else wants the “Good Life”, I encourage them to do the same. Don’t take mine - I earned it.-—JM
These people aren’t necessarily leeches.
Some of them literally cannot afford to pay out the wazoo for something they rarely need (I have heard and read it said that all they have to do is cut out cable tv and they can afford it. There is no way it’s that simple and cut and dried.). I know; I and others of my aquaintance are THERE. I agree only on the point that people in this situation should have options and be encouraged to have some type of health coverage THAT FITS THEM.
But this is not what is happening now, and if the government controls it all, what little of it that is happening now will be destroyed.
You are seperating out an issue that especially angers you from the fact that all of us are about to lose our freedoms AND the best of healthcare that we now have.
And you are making a case that it hurts others who have insurance or personal wealth when, those who don’t, go to the hospital.
It does, but not as much as all will be hurt by what is about to be forced upon us.
Therefore, I choose to debate the destructive situation we face as opposed to the point that you seperate out from it.