(November 22, 2018 at 6:21 am)Amarok Wrote: Awhile back i got into an argument about healthcare my opponent was a right winger who essentially argued :
Quote:That it was stealing his money to pay for other peoples healthcare and deprives them of their choice of provider
He's already paying for other people's healthcare -- just not in ways so obvious that he notices. When a hospital emergency room has to treat a non-paying patient who doesn't have a PCP because of no insurance and insufficient cash, the hospital doesn't eat that cost. They pass it on to paying customers and insurance companies in higher rates for other services. The insurance companies in turn pass it on to their customers in higher premiums.
It comes down to: would he rather pay $50, up front, from his wallet, into a socialized healthcare system -- or have $250 picked from his back pocket by the industry to support the corporate dominated mess we currently have?
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Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
