bjj hero said:
Mimsofthedawg said:
First of all, the people who get denied coverage in the US are denied it because they're lazy asses who don't work and can't afford health care in the first place. For the 256 million insured people, it works just fine.
Then there are plenty of insured Americans who go bankrupt from medical bills, I doubt the system is working for them. Same for people with pre-existing medical conditions who can't get affordable cover. The same with those whos insurers wriggle out of paying, or who are insured but cant afford the excess to send their sick child to the Dr this month.
If you can afford a good plan and you're in relatively good health it probably works for you but a lot of people are excluded from this group. Most people have no say in aquiring their illness.
But this is a very small minority. You act like it's a common occurrence - it's not. I don't think that the entire health care industry should be overhauled just to accommodate the misfortunes of a few.
Having said that, if you look at my other points, I mention that I support health care for the uninsured, I just don't support the bill presented in Congress at the moment.
Plus, the government already has a program for children. The problem is the people have to apply for it and they don't. There's no excuse for a parent to not be able to send their child to the doctor.
Obama mentions that "if you like your current insurance, you can keep it." But what he fails to take into account is the fact that the current bill states that, if you leave your companies insurance, or your company chooses to switch to government run health care (which they all will because it will be cheaper for them than private insurance), you cannot switch back to a private health care. Similarly, if you start off on government health care, you can not go to private health care. Again, one of my biggest problems is the democrat's lying about what they're actually attempting to do here - it makes this whole thing smell like a pile of shit that I don't trust. Why not just tell us you want to switch health care to government run only?
Not to mention the insane price to insure all Americans would cost the US 10 trillion dollars of debt over the next decade by the most conservative estimates! Some go as high as 40 trillion dollars, just based on health care alone. Give the insurance to those who need it, make incentives for them to switch to private health care, and reform our laws to make health care cheaper so we don't have to attempt to pay so much money.
The expense of health care is another problem. There are a set of laws dictating malpractice suits. The average Surgeon in America receives nearly 200,000 dollars in insurance per year to pay for malpractice suits. These Law suits are often times fraudulent, but the lawyers who work them earn millions of dollars every year. How do these health insurance companies (who are the same insurance companies that provide us with insurance) pay for these lawsuits? They raise prices. If Congress passed laws to help protect America's doctors from fraudulent malpractice suits, the price of health care could go down as much as two thirds from current day levels. When you combine this with possible, responsible government competition, the cost of health care would be among the cheapest in the world - as well as the best. Why doesn't the Congress reform these laws? Because these same lawyers who make millions of dollars in the lawsuits pay Congress millions of dollars in campaign finances. The reality is it's not the health care system that's broken, it's the American government. This is why so many people aren't just protesting against health care reform, but against the American government, with chants like, "Rebuild our Republic!"
Put simply, there are other more efficient ways to reform health care than what Congress is attempting to do. This is why I do not support the President or Congress at all.
