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I can see both sides of the issue. What I find is that people with good health insurance is against socialized health care. Generally, it's the attitude that was posted in here, "I have mine, why don't you get yours?" I find it to be a bit close-minded. My parents are in that camp. My mom has Hep-C and didn't have to pay hardly anything out of pocket for her multiple treatments. What she doesn't see is that if she were to have lost her job, she could be dead because she would have had no coverage.
I am currently without insurance and could be for awhile. This is partly because of my choice, but also partly out of my control. I have not been able to gain stability in the areas I want to teach in. I am always told, "We'd love to keep you, you're one of our best teachers, but the budget got cut and you're low on the totem pole." Granted, I could have stayed in AZ and continued teaching there with insurance coverage, but I made the choice to leave. However if anything were to happen to my health (even a something as simple as a UTI), I would not be able to afford hospital fees. I know there are free clinics and such and that is where I'd go, but if it were more serious, I'd be out of luck. It's sad that unnecessary deaths happen because of this.
I'm for universal health care because people shouldn't have to stress over what will happen to them if they get sick. I found DJ Happy's post to be very informative. I agree that the insurance companies are using PR to discourage people from going universal. I don't blame them, they'd lose a lot of money. What I said in the OP still stands though, we are already spending a lot of money out of our paychecks for health care. Also, as was mentioned, that money is going to help other people. Is it better in your mind to help other people who are paying into the same insurance company as you than to help all citizens?
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