RE: Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
January 26, 2017 at 12:27 am
(January 25, 2017 at 9:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Well, it was your analogy. People who get screened for diabetes can be treated with diet/exercise and medication. People who show up in a diabetic coma at an ER are in much deeper shit. Or worse, if they have gangrene they can have something amputated but the costs in an ER are astonishingly high and if they don't have insurance and have to rely on Medicare guess who pays for that in the long run? Right. We do.
I see that Tibs already nailed the answer.
Now we're talking. Diabetes. I make a clear distinction between Type I or Type II. The people that suffer from Type I can never be blamed for their condition and are among those with pre-existing conditions that I addressed earlier. Type II is an entirely different circumstance. Why am I obligated to pay for medication or a doctor's visit for those that don't diet/exercise?
Of course we're now obfuscating the original argument that revocation of insurance = death.
