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

To: gg cox who wrote (9359)	9/13/2009 10:38:45 AM
From: skinowski	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Could i have retired at 51 if i had to be concerned with health care premiums of $1200 a month and rising out of control, i might have reconsidered But.... someone is still paying for your insurance, even though you're retired (congrats, btw). Your remark is particularly interesting to me, because - very possibly - if we had socialized healthcare maybe I'd also retire this year, rather than get ready to start a new employment, maybe even a new career... I'd figure let young people, in their 50's and below, keep working and keep turning the wheels.... As you see, when I speak up against socialized healthcare, I'm not exactly acting in my own self interest.... :)

To: gg cox who wrote (9359)	9/13/2009 11:58:53 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I don't know your individual situation - why you retired so early or your circumstances - but it would be ruinous and wasteful for a society to encourage people to retire that early. A person who retires at 51 and gets government benefits will spend more of their life as a taker than as an earner. I don't think you should be bragging about retiring early to collect government health care benefits. It doesn't really sound responsible. Which is the problem with socialism, isn't it? It encourages people to say why work, save, take care of myself - let the nanny state do it. Are people who work past 51 saps? And I find it hard to see your basis of complaint against health insurance companies in other countries. You have no experience with them. I do and I've never had a problem with those evil greedy leeches as you pro-socialist folks refer to them.