One reason my health insurance premiums have increased faster than my income leaving me with less money to spend each year is I'm paying insurance for all the people who don't have health insurance. I think getting everybody insured is a good idea and for those low on the income scale I'd bet the government will help you pay the premiums. The cost difference for someone with insurance like my son who just went to urgent care $140 approx. The paperwork said if he didn't have insurance the bill would have been $5000 approx. Of course they wouldn't pay it and I'd just have my premiums upped more than they should be.
One reason my health insurance premiums have increased faster than my income leaving me with less money to spend each year is I'm paying insurance for all the people who don't have health insurance. I think getting everybody insured is a good idea and for those low on the income scale I'd bet the government will help you pay the premiums. The cost difference for someone with insurance like my son who just went to urgent care $140 approx. The paperwork said if he didn't have insurance the bill would have been $5000 approx. Of course they wouldn't pay it and I'd just have my premiums upped more than they should be.
The biggest reason your premiums are so high is that you are subsidizing chronic health issue maintenance. 72% of health care costs are associated with chronic disease. With that in mind, the answer isn't to force the healthy population to buy insurance, but rather to tax the entire population for the social problem of chronic disease in our nation. This takes the chronic issue out of private insurance, reducing the cost and making it more affordable for small employers and individuals, broadening those covered. It also puts a bright light on social issues such as obesity and cancer and their causes. Taxes for sources of these chronic issues will go up, which effectively puts a use tax on items that will have future impact on health, and puts the taxpayer in position to engage on broad reaching resolutions.
Most (70%) Americans know that the care provided by a state run system will be so-so at best. None of the people who proposed, authored, debated, voted on or signed into law this health care system will ever use it. They have their own and will always have their own.
Even the Canadian PM came to the US for his health care, turning his back on his own Canadian Health Care system. You ever wonder why?
Expecting your neighbors to pay for your medical care is un-American. Why not pass a law that says if you are having a problem making your house payment or your car payment that your neighbor will pay for you. Makes about as much sense. What ever happened to rugged individualism? Where people were proud to stand on their own and take responsibility for themselves and their families.
Ah, but that is what Obama wants. He wants everyone beholding to the government for everything. When someone controls your housing, food, the place you live they OWN you and you have NO choice...Do you.
The evidence is quite clear the court is political. Clarence Thomas wife is a significant leader in the TEAParty just for starters. The health care decision will go 5/4 as it has for some time now. Health care will be declared un-Constitutional. And then the door is open for Social Security and Medicare as well.
Of course their decisions are swayed by their political beliefs. They rule on ideas, concepts and interpret those ideas and concepts through their own understanding and conclusions regarding the Constitution, the intent of the founders and the intent of the language in it.
Of course that's going to factor. Look at all of their decisions thus far, they've all been partisan decisions. Thanks to Bushy Baby, and the dumbo Dems in the Senate for allowing Bush to appoint extremists to the bench. Come on people, you've got to vote Democrats for President for the rest of your lives so the Supreme Court will never be hijacked again like it is now.
coucou, "most of americans" does not mean all americans, seven in ten is a part of population who can afford health care, what about the forty million of poor people ? "au revoir"
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Even the Canadian PM came to the US for his health care, turning his back on his own Canadian Health Care system. You ever wonder why?
"most of americans" does not mean all americans, seven in ten is a part of population who can afford health care, what about the forty million of poor people ?
"au revoir"