Because a few have problems, they are destroying our entire healthcare system. It's no more than an excuse, there were about a billion ways to take care of those people without trampling our freedom and killing our economy.
No one, and I mean no one even Democrats, can possibly believe they are doing anything good with this monster.
Our family, with three kids, were literally $200 over the yearly income limit to qualify for assistance of any kind. This went on for years.
What happens is that the local hospitals and med centers apply sliding-scale fees based on need. This worked out great and although we had no health *insurance* for years (I had medicare through disability, though) the kids got all the care they required including fixing broken arms from sports, etc.
NO ONE is denied health *care* in this country. And based on experience I believe that everybody, even those who don't have insurance, are dealt with fairly and effectively.
Making the system more economically efficient ONE STEP AT A TIME is definitely in order. But not a destruction of the best health care in the world and a recreation of the failed socialist health care programs responsible for the death and under-treatment of hundreds of millions worldwide.
My 9 year old is good with analogies. She says, “So, let me get this straight. If the health care system was like dad’s car (7 years old) and had a flat tire and broken radio and needed new paint—the democrats would want to take it to the scrap yard and have one of those machines crush it to a tiny cube, and THEN try to build a new car out of the same car?”
I told her yes, then Obama’s government would charge dad for paying for a ‘new’ car. Her eyeballs rolled back in her head. ;-)