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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (6012)	2/11/2009 12:04:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Wow, you really don't get it. Who pays for your 6 months stay in the hospital? I think it's you who doesn't get it. Either that or you think me a deadbeat. <g> You seem to be equating having insurance with paying medical bills. Not having insurance does not eliminate risk. Quite the opposite. One gets insurance for the explicit purpose of eliminating risk. If you choose to have no insurance and nothing happens, you win. If the worst happens, you lose. But self-insuring is a legitimate and oft-practiced construct. I have no life insurance. Do you think I should be required to carry it? My sushi chef, who has no health insurance, fell off a ladder last week. Needed stitches and a tetanus shot. Went to the doctor, got them, paid the bill. An old-fashioned concept, perhaps, but not a difficult one, I don't think. You asked me if not having insurance and ending up in the hospital for six months arms others. Now, if you had asked me whether reneging on my hospital bill harms others, you would have gotten a different answer.