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To: MortMan

The current system was badly flawed, which is a good part of what drove non-welfare minorities to liking Obama’s plan. My own fiancé was born with Cerebral Palsy and if it weren’t for being able to be on her father’s healthcare plan would be screwed - a ‘pre existing condition’ nobody can help plus massive job hiring discrimination? No place will insure you and good luck paying for your $6,000 wheelchair when all you can get is a job at min-wage and your biweekly paychecks are around $375.

That being said, his idea of a fix was obviously designed to fail, and even if it weren’t it has fixed one problem for her while worsening hundreds.


59 posted on 07/22/2016 7:34:15 AM PDT by Laser_Ray (Another nifty idea)
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To: Laser_Ray

For people like your fiance, I would think a system whereby healthcare insurers and/or providers get a direct 100% writeoff for philanthropic donations (like the wheelchair) might be effective, given conditions where the recipient has such a condition.

(Assuming you are male due to screen name): Her preexisting condition is much more serious than mine. It is not out of bounds for the government to encourage or even subsidize behavior on part of private industry to help out in such cases. But due care would have to be exercised to be certain that the philanthropic tax breaks are not abused by the companies or by individuals.

I do not agree that the previous system was badly flawed if it is viewed from the average person’s viewpoint. I do agree that the boundary cases revealed significant issues that needed outside the box solutions - which were not provided for. But “hard cases make for bad law”, and rather than looking for solutions to the hard cases without overturning a system that worked for the vast majority, Obamacare blew up the apple cart in order to make everyone suffer equally.

No system can work for everyone equally, and those of us who exist at the margins (such as with preexisting conditions) cannot be the driving force defining “fair” for all people without pricing many others out of the system, IMO. In my view, that is where we now are, thanks to Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.

Congratulations on your impending marriage, my FRiend.


60 posted on 07/22/2016 7:47:25 AM PDT by MortMan (Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
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