tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17048852.post6271153236679620003..comments2023-05-01T06:02:23.394-07:00Comments on Other People's Kids: More Health Care/Politics StuffDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12565391786475786128noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17048852.post-5958298248428201482008-02-06T06:11:00.000-08:002008-02-06T06:11:00.000-08:00There are several different ways to assure univers...There are several different ways to assure universal coverage. I favor universal coverage, and I think we need national leadership, I am not quite certain that I want the federal government running it though.<BR/><BR/>But I want to respond to one thing you said. "Why should other people shoulder my medical costs through government mandate?" <BR/><BR/>Well, right now other people are shouldering your medical costs through their health care premiums. Only fewer people have to pay the bill because there aren't as many people in the pool. Why should they have to pay a larger portion?<BR/><BR/>And those people you insist are getting free care? Well, their care is being paid for through higher bills to the rest of us, once again being paid for through our premiums.<BR/><BR/>And the people who can't get primary care and end up getting more expensive emergency care, and the babies whose mother's didn't have prenatal care, and everyone else who ends up critical and in the hospital and can't pay those bills, the insured are shouldering all those bills. All those expenses get calculated back into the bills paid by the insured which is paid by through our premiums.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I would pefer for a few more people to help pay for your healthy care, and for all of us to pay for the less expensive care the really poor people need before they end up in the emergency room.Yondallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10375966725096729570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17048852.post-83372278782414041902008-02-05T21:56:00.000-08:002008-02-05T21:56:00.000-08:00You can have federalism and a national health ins ...You can have federalism and a national health ins scheme (again, see Germany, where that works just fine and the states are a lot smaller than they are in the US but still manage to block federal legislation all the time, which never happens in the US). But the real issue is that if you always believe the best solution is in private enterprise, then some people will never have health care, because there are some people whom it is not profitable or worthwhile to treat. And I really don't see why just because you're poor you should have to forgo health care or beg for it. To me that sounds an awful like your life is only worth protecting if you have a little money. (And what about the people who can't beg and lobby?) As long as you have that attitude, some people will automatically be excluded. That's fine, I guess, but it doesn't square with my understanding of the inherent value of human life. (I find it interesting that the right to life crowd are often the most vehement protesters against comprehensive health care for all).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com