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Originally Posted by yournamehere
Why do all the people against health care assume they're going to be the ones paying for someone else's care?
Do you all have some omniscient doctor's guarantee that you'll be healthy as a horse until you die suddenly in your sleep when you're 95?
Has it ever occurred to any of you that you might become chronically and severely ill; lose your job and your benefits, and may end up on the receiving end of a fair health care system?
Does everything in life have to be about a few people making obscene profits? Isn't the health of our citizens above that kind of thinking? I certainly think it is.
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I have a few minutes before I have to leave. This new nightshift schedule, while fun, takes some getting used to.
Anyways, I have scoliosis. Bad. I have a heel lift (basically a slanted block of rubber) in one shoe to keep the base of my spine straight. My back wasn't always so straight, so the correction adaption was exceedingly painful. I've spent years visiting chiropractors and having the scar tissue that covers the left side of my back rubbed out. It feels like you're being skinned alive sometimes, no therapeutic massages there. I haven't even begun dealing with my nearly negative arch that has developed on my left foot as a result of this rubber brick in my shoe.
So to say I have not considered this issue is ridiculous, at least in my case. Of course I have. I am not thinking about my personal goals, I'm thinking what happens to America when we start walking down that road. It may be too late anyways, and my concerns may be completely unfounded. Who knows. No one here including myself can really say they know. All I know is that I'm trying to plan for the problems that lie ahead.
Despite that, I still have some concerns. I'm not going to say
yeah let's do it for me. I would benefit tremendously. My spine and ribcage are fucked, of course I would benefit. However would America benefit? We need overhauls on a
lot of fronts, no argument there. But socialization may not be the answer we hope it to be. Yes it may start off small, but any time you change a system, you feel the effects long after, and results are not always planned.
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Originally Posted by rahl
What I think bothers most people about having to pay for others health care is that they will be paying for their own and someone elses. Of course they think they might get sick at some point, otherwise they wouldn't have insurance themselves. They just don't want double wammied
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Agreed. I don't want to pay for someone's food when they have too many kids to feed them, due to lack of education and willpower. I don't want to pay for someone to take methadone to kick a habit. I do, however, feel fine contributing to education, college, condoms. Environmental awareness. Hydrogen fuel research, or better yet, solar.
Ok I gtg. Have fun with that
