How can anyone deny someone health insurance and feel good about it?
The whole idea that Obama is trying to get healthcare for all is wonderful and he will not give up. I am so proud.
How does anyone else feel about it? If someone believes different I would like to know why..I feel its a moral obligation to take care of our own. As people are dying everyday because they have no health insurance.I have been answering all these questions and decided to ask my own.I truely would like to hear a good reason why someone couldnt care less about another person.
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Why should I have to pay for someone else? Health care is a privilege not a right. We should take all the weak non working losers who can't pay for themselves out on an island somewhere and leave them there. Born blind? Too bad. Born to a crack addicted hooker? Too bad. Couldn't afford an education? Too bad. Mentally disabled? Too bad. Life isn't some joy ride where everything is peachy. It's tough, and people need to either pull themselves up by the bootstraps or just lay down. Let those of us who have it good keep having it good in peace. Good day. I hope you caught the irony. On a more serious note: The tax system in our country is in shambles, and our priorities are backwards. Corporations run amok. One need only look at the systematic denial of insurance claims in the name of profits. How much is enough? What I don't understand is how people, individuals, can sit back and justify it. Why doesn't every individual see that corporations have too much power? I don't know if you read the stories coming out of Florida about homeowners who bought houses built with toxic drywall from China being denied insurance claims and then dropped after making them, but it's disgusting. Why should the homeowner be punished for a technicality in the contract? In a rational America, the Insurance company would be obligated to repair the damage (the point of having insurance) and then the appropriate person would be billed afterward. It is no strange thing that the insurance companies are fighting this legislation, they don't want to be in a spot where they have to cut profits, even if its the right thing to do. Let's hope that the right thing is finally done and corporations are put in their place.
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People who feel good when others don't have health care are simply evil.The issue of health care is a moral one.Imagine America spending billions to fight foreign governments who mistreat their own,but cannot take care of its people at home.This is insane and hypocritic. Obama has made it clear that he has a top level healthcare insurance and he wants every American if he/she can to be able to access the same plan if he/she can.Tell me if this president is elitist. People who care less about the sufferings of others are the very same who are deceiving and feeding a sizeable section of America with hate.Hate will drive people to be heartless.Hate is poison and once you are poisoned,it will take time to detoxicate you. What this prez is doing has been attempted by his predecessors.It was met with an astounding and unfathomable opposition.I wonder why people who ring the bells of competition won't tolerate one when it comes to providing healthcare to people who really need it. And I equally wonder why people who really need it are not demonstrating in favour of it. What I've seen so far is a free ride by the opponents of this good will gesture.
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Got me. I cannot get life or health insurance from a private insurer because of epilepsy. At any cost. Doesn't matter that epilepsy has no bearing on life expectancy or health costs. They simply don't do it, because the law allows it. On the other hand, as a disabled veteran for epilepsy, like all federal workers, I already have a public option insurance plan (for health anyway) that the taxpayers already pay, so my family and I are covered. If the teabaggers want to go out to protest the right of Congressmen and military and civil service workers to receive free insurance while they reserve the right to pay ever-expensive premiums, that is their right. (Silly, but their right.) Believe me, if teabaggers want to do the work of insurance lobbyists for them for free, the insurance industry will let them and laugh while they take the public's health insurance premiums all the way to the boardrooms for executive bonus payouts (oops, I meant paying the medical bills of their policyholders, except insurance companies don't do that, they practice medicine without a license and like my wife before we were married, tell her they won't pay for her emergency burst gallbladder surgery because it is cosmetic . . .) Or like AIG, loan the bailout money they were given to CitiCorp . . . . The money I save on health insurance more than covers by socking away what would be a premium into an account which will act as a self-financed life insurance policy. I have the taxpayers to thank for that too.
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Because they honestly think it is a good idea. Those who defend the current system are either unaware of the facts below, or make up things to explain them away. FACT - Insurance companies in the USA admit to pushing up prices, buying politicians and not paying out claims when they should [1] FACT - PER PERSON the USA spends more on healthcare than any other nation on the planet [2] FACT - Obama debated his plans before the election for healthcare [3] FACT - the chance of a child under five of dying in the USA is greater than industrialised nations with universal health coverage [4] FACT - Obama was elected by the American people to bring in change [5] FACT - Obama wants to stop insurance companies from screwing American’s [6] FACT - The reforms Obama wants work in the Netherlands and Switzerland [7] Let me know if my facts are wrong, but please provide proof.
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Beause this someone originally pushed their "constitutional rights" to choose NOT to have insurance, then fell on their sacred bone and broke it and NOW they want insurance?? Yes it is a moral obligation to take care of our own so, do... as I do and she does and they do and go get your insurance BEFORE you fall on your butt (there's banana skins all over the place you know). EDIT: this "The Patriot" guy proves that the USA DOES have some people with brains. (but wait, he waves an English flag??) EDIT2 respect and hats off to Eel
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I totally agree with you! I think everyone should have affordable health care, and options to choose from. I hope Obama keeps his promises on this issue. if he doesn't, his base is going to be very upset about it! So would I....
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I happen to agree with you. I guess everyone is entitled to an affordable health care.
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I couldn't do it, But I have seen a hospital turn patients away because they did not have coverage...And it's sad.
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