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Originally Posted by willravel
So if you're shot in the face and the surgery to save your life is $35,000 in the ER....? Too bad?
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again, that is ER. And that person will be paying for that for some time $35,000 is no chump change.
if that person is me, I have insurance at this point in time, I'm covered by a $50 copay for utilizing the ER facilities.
and I disagree that this is further that people don't care about their fellow man. I'm stating that I don't care about someone else who doesn't care about themselves. I'm not willing to burden myself by someone who isn't willing to or cannot. I have not said those that aren't able, I've stated that I don't want to cover those that are taking advantage of public services that would are otherwise able bodied people that can contribute.
No this turns into people who have stuff that don't want to give it up to those that don't have.
I'm not interested in spending my extra money or compromise my living standard so that someone in Tennessee can have health care. I don't live in Tennessee. Just like I don't want to be forced to contribute a percentage of my income to pay for starving people in Africa. I'm happy to contribute to helping out my fellow New Yorkers, and preferably the NY people that live in my neighborhood.
I'm happy for it to be a choice, not forced.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
This thread is further proof that people generally don't care about their fellow man (Or woman). It seems to me that the people who oppose this idea or any others like it do so under the basis that they don't feel that they should have to pay for others. Therefore, I'm assuming you also don't pay taxes.
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Quite the contrary. The amount of taxes I pay is quite obscene and absurd. I'm not happy to pay it but I willingly pay what I must after all deductions and other exploits I can utilize to save as much money in my pocket so that then I can choose what to do with that money.
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