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Originally Posted by BigBen
So you want a tax break? How about this: "A tax-cut is a tax-cut is a tax-cut..."
Would you feel better knowing that your tax dollars went to provide ScottKuma's son with top of the line medical care?
Sorry to offend anyone with that statement, but I truly believe that it helps my side of the argument. The reality: Someone has to pay, or people are put between rocks and hard places.
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Not going to offend me... but I might point out: one of the problems is that I AM paying for the insurance...and I'm still being put between that proverbial rock & a hard place! (Please excuse me if this continuing real world example of the short-comings of private insurance is out of place.)
The irony of the situation is that if I weren't paying for the insurance, and if I weren't working - or even if I were working minimum wage - my son's care would be fully covered on the public's dime. Not only that, but he would be getting a higher level of care than he is currently receiving under the private plan. (I'm hearing that less-severe cases routinely receive 15 - 16 hours of nursing a day, compared with the 8 hours a day that he currently receives.)
What really cheeses me off is that the private plan is essentially waiting for the government to start picking up the bill, so that my son no longer skews their actuary tables.