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Voted : I'd pay at least as much as I'm paying now.
Well, let's see. I pay about $4K a year for catastrophic health insurance -- with a high deductible ($5K), which won't cover 'maintenance' tests like mammograms, physical checkups, etc., and won't cover any medications. While I won't divulge my income, let's just say I'd rather spend a substantial amount to get better care than this.
It's downright demoralizing to feel deathly ill and, instead of going to the hospital, be too worried about the cost to risk it.
by mojo on Sat Oct 20, 07 4:03am
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paying more is no solution.
examine the root cause of all this
- a medical industry determined to drain you dry of your life-savings.
all else is fluff, wool they pull over your eyes.
Everyone's hooked on this 'addiction',now.
Your health insurance doesn't pay one cent for you.
YOU pay your medical bills(and everyone else's) indirectly
Voted : 25% more
HUGS, mojo!
And, ten years ago, I doubt that I would've been so game about handing over my hard-earned cash to take care of people I didn't know, even with my neo-socialist leanings. Having been on the sh*t end of the health-care system has been nothing short of a divine revelation to me.
And I agree with you, aplmac. The money end of health care, the need to make money from the suffering of others, needs to be sent packing.
Well done aplmac!
Hey, I thought the Government was gonna pay for it.
Voted : zero
I have no wish to have a single-payer system imposed on me, nor to have my taxes jacked up by 10 or 15% to pay for the health care of illegal aliens or idiots who, despite not having any physical disabilities and being of normal intelligence, insist upon living as parasites on productive society.
I would support some extension of Medicare, etc. and of aid to those with preexisting conditions and to small children without insurance, but this should be done within the private system and would not produce the same massive confiscatory taxes that true universal/socialist healh care would. What's Hillary-care going to cost us in a decade? Over 1 trillion? Of course, that's the *projection*, which is sure to be overrun massively, just as was the case with Social Security.
As if the neocons haven't been bad enough for 7 years, now it looks likely we are going to have the neosocialists riding roughshod over us for another 8 years starting in 2009.
Voted : I'd pay at least as much as I'm paying now.
I am already paying around 6% -7%, just for my own family.
When you consider that Cuba, a far poorer country, has a higher life expectancy than the USA, largely because of its health service that is if free at the point of delivery to all, surely the US could afford a far superior service for all.
Of course it could, if it weren't a nation built on greed and selfishness.
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