Comments on: Mandatory health insurance?

By: Chaze

Chaze — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:54:29 +0000

Less than $25,000 a year. That is what my wife and I make. I am a college graduate with degrees in Psychology and English Education… yet I have been unable to find any work in either field – ergo I am currently working for $7.35 an hour as a hotel desk “supervisor”. I am not offered any kind of benefits, nor is she at her work (part time in a call center for $7.25 an hour 25 hours a week if we’re lucky). As it stands, we literally barely are able to make ends meet. If there is an issue with our car, we go without. If there is an issue with our apartment, we go without. If there is anything that comes up which is an unexpected cost… we have to go without. Minimum wage is not what it should be; so tacking on yet another ‘required’ bill for us to pay is tantamount to slow and methodical murder. We already have to decide between gas in the car or something other than ramen noodles or $0.49 “great value” canned soup. Where are we going to come up with the additional money for this new mandatory health coverage? Fine, there might be a federal subsidy… but will that cover all of it? I doubt it. What about the additional taxes that come out because we are ‘technically’ uninsured? I am just personally terrified that now we will have to decide between gas to get back and forth to work making minimum wage, food to survive, or health insurance that we have to have and may or may not use.

By: Indira

Indira — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:23:55 +0000

“we could lose our country via stupidity, and there is no place to run.”

Amen. I’ve contemplated this many times over. That usually problems that grow out of hand were the cause of a domino effect.

What I mean is that, if education was affordable and available to everyone. Don’t think that it is, despite what worked for you, I had to become homeless and quit a job that paid me too much to be eligible for financial aid, just so I can better my life, what kind of backwards system was this? It’s like after High School, if you weren’t rich or extremely poor you didn’t get shit.

Where am I going with that??? Doctors go to school for a long time, that takes a lot of dedication, that maybe afterwards, they feel miffed about it all. They have to get all these credentials and insurance just to save their degree from all those money hungry individuals who want to sue them for the slightest thing that goes wrong with their bodies. Displacing the blame.

I personally believe that not everyone can become a doctor. It’s hard work. But that doesn’t mean that just because you become a doctor that you should raise your prices, and over bill patients for unnecessary things, nor should insurance companies be allowed to force themselves onto people who are too broke to even afford food.

If it’s mandatory- It better be free. Because my pocket is lint just as many people lives are around here. People are going to desperate measures and creating their own business just to make some money around.

Your lucky if you have a job and can afford your rent and food without depending on the system for helping you out.

Knock on wood that I don’t become seriously ill that I find myself in need. But I take care of myself, look both ways, and keep my nose clean.

Insurance is helpful, but should never be mandatory, thats almost saying that everyone has to wear uniforms and in a certain color, and follow a certain religion.

Most people do not like insurance companies. But for the majority, it is unaffordable right now. This country is in a far more serious crisis than whether or not we have insurance.

I can guarantee that when shit hits the fan ( if it ever does) insurance companies are the last thing people need.

We need real doctors. Doctors that understand that even though they spent a lot of money on their education, they did it for a reason, because they wanted to help people and be of service.

Even if the person does not have “insurance”, the doctor better, cause if a person dies because of this ignorance with insurance companies, they will have to explain why, they didn’t give that person the treatment that was called for. I know I’d be asking that question.

By: Yohanan

Yohanan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:40:30 +0000

One only needs to look at the faces involved, the ones covered with monkey dung pushing this agenda, they are all head deep in cronyism for their unions and insurance pushers. Ever notice that when they talk about working out the problems, the public is never involved? Just the unions, insurance co’s, and publicly funded hospital doctors are in the tank. It is a shame to think these crooked politicians are to blame for all of this, yet folks still vote them into office over and over again, like a bad recurring dream. Our country suffers from extreme ignorance of the facts, has little common sense, and is gullible beyond measure, we could lose our country via stupidity, and there is no place to run.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:40:27 +0000

Yea, They claim its about taking responsibility.
They say me and my wife cost everyone else money by doing it without bogus insurance. The insurance company just takes your money and then denies all claims. So why buy it. We take care of ourselves.
We are educated people. We can get the same medicine the doctor pushes for ourselves from mexico. The encounters we have had with US doctors they are idiots anyway, only interested it robbing you blind. If you need something major you just go to singapore where the health care is cheaper and much better that in the US. Isn’t that the free market or am i missing something ?
Create a good healthcare system with non profit insurance that covers everything and pays out al it takes in and I will participate voluntarily.
Try to mandate I buy a bogus product and i just might move out of the US and take all my money and skills with me.