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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: TimF who wrote (14291)4/2/2012 12:04:39 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 85487
 
I ask again, what happens and who pays if you have a car accident or get cancer and need to spend 6 months in the hospital? Someone has to pay.

You are so cavalier about this health insurance problem, no taxes and freedom and then we find out you don't even have health insurance. We will all pay for you not having helath insurance and everyonne else without it. I am sure you will want the care if you are laying in the street bleeding badly from a bad care accident. You may need care for life.

Obamacare would make health insurance affordable by 2014 and mandate it.

I don't see how you can even comment on health insurance when you don't have it, which means if you get sick or hurt society has to pay for you.

You have not thought this through at all.

<<It this a personal issue or a political one?

The point of the covnersation has been the politics. What the government should do. Or broad aspects of health care (which could include non-governmental charitable payment, or the government forcing third parties to pay which seems to be a recent Democratic party favorite, or doctors treating people for free.

If I incurred some huge medical expense while uninsured Obamacare wouldn't help reduce the expense. It would just make me pay a fine for not insuring myself. Oh sure I could buy "insurance" (in quotes because under this conditions the actual transaction doesn't involve insuring against anything it would just be forcing insurance companies to pay for care), with my per-existing condition, but that's just forcing a third party to pay, just as the pre-existing requirement for emergency care to be provided regardless of ability to pay forces a third party to pay. Changing around the third parties, doesn't change the basic nature of the situation.
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