But we are morally obligated to pay for your health care if you get cancer because you took reasonable care of yourself? The church or gofundme is going to pay for hundreds of thousands for the treatment? Not likely. We should just let you die because you took a chance and lost your gamble? Healthcare should be a human right in a country this wealthy.
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You are not any more obligated to pay for my losing health insurance gamble than I am obligated to pay for aborting fetuses.
Let's make the argument a little tougher on me: How about the surviving injured child of parents killed by a drunk driver who has no insurance? This child is seriously injured and will need multiple, expensive surgeries over his life. How about me catching a dangerous infectious disease and not seeking treatment because I want to save money?
The first example is an exceptional case that can be addressed by specific exceptions in health insurance or compensation to victims type of laws. I would have no problem in supporting laws to cover exceptions like this. Where I get pissed off is when people have the capability to pay but are too lazy or want to shirk their obligations. Or their irresponsibility causes their medical issue in the first place.
The second example is even tougher. How does one know if they have a dangerous infectious disease? The community could be seriously affected if no action is taken. A person's reluctance to seek medical help could endanger the community. Barriers such as financial ones should be avoided to encourage people with potentially communicable diseases to seek help. How about ailments that are of indeterminate cause upon initial presentation? How should financial responsibility be handled then? Half and half? Through a board of inquiry?
These are tough questions that can potentially affect more than just the patient.
Although I call out Leftists all the time over questions of what is practical and obtainable versus an idealistic theory, I find myself torn by the way I think things should be and actual reality.
People should be honest and not take unfair advantage of systems already in place. However, especially nowadays, too many people feel entitled and will take advantage of any hole they can find in a system. This will inevitably cause the system to fail as more and more people to take advantage of it. Many times systems stay in place long beyond its effectiveness.
No system can address all the different situations that may arise and various groups of people will be left feeling cheated. The best I can hope for is a "light" healthcare plan that deals with exceptional circumstances and potentially infectious diseases. The other situations may be best served by optional insurance and employer supplied insurance for occupational hazards.
- "This guy is mentally retarded. He's this dumb Southerner," Trump told Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary who later quit amid domestic violence allegations. Trump then did an unflattering impression of Sessions' Alabama accent, making fun of Sessions' shaky performance at his confirmation hearings.
Healthcare is NOT A RIGHT.
Because that makes a doctor your slave.
You have a right to your life, your liberty....but you don’t have the RIGHT to force someone to take care of you.
Why Don’t people understand the cost of freedom? It isn’t free.
All that said - the healthcare system in America is fucked beyond all belief...not beyond repair.
It starts with the government. Get the government OUT of healthcare.
5 of the 8 biggest lobbyists in Warshington are from big pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Get them THE FUCK OUT.
From there, you have a great start to solving the problem.
His southern base will still love him though,they are that fucking stupid.
The most enjoyable thing about Trump is how he makes Liberals completely lose their minds and clearly reveal themselves for what they are.
This is the same excuse German Conservatives used for Hitler, that worked out well. Thankfully for everyone, Trump is a mental midget.
Washington Post: “An unusual political battle is raging across North Carolina, where national and state Democrats have recruited an army of candidates and are pouring millions of dollars into a campaign to loosen a years-long Republican grip on a state legislature that has turned an otherwise evenly split state into a bastion for some of the country’s most conservative laws. Among them: a limit on transgender access to bathrooms that was ultimately repealed under pressure from business leaders, congressional district maps that courts have ruled were designed to curtail the voting power of African Americans and education spending levels that have sparked mass protests at the state Capitol.”
“The campaign reflects an often-overlooked subplot of the Democratic Party’s broader push to engineer a ‘blue wave’ across the country in the November midterms — tapping into voter anger over President Trump as well as Republican policies on school funding, taxes and health care to chip away at GOP dominance in state capitals.”
“The campaign reflects an often-overlooked subplot of the Democratic Party’s broader push to engineer a ‘blue wave’ across the country in the November midterms — tapping into voter anger over President Trump as well as Republican policies on school funding, taxes and health care to chip away at GOP dominance in state capitals.”