I have some questions about how we will go about mandating every citizen to have health insurance.
I'm already being screwed, being 22, being forced to have car insurance. I am not just forced to have car insurance, but to pay out the ass for it because I'm so "young". I have never been in a wreck since I got my drivers license when I was 16, but that doesn't matter. I still have to pay a ridiculous amount of money for car insurance.
So, here are some of my questions about requiring the possession of health insurance.
How low will the price have to be to require everyone to pay for health insurance?
What will the minimum provisions of the insurance plan be?
Is the only reason we are being forced to possess health insurance because of people go to the emergency room and can't pay, so we taxpayers have to pick up the tab? If so, how about we just require a person to possess health insurance if he visits the emergency room 1 or "x" amount of times without paying for it?
We already pay taxes for the opportunity to call 911 in case of emergency, but when we actually use the number for something, especially if an ambulance is necessary, we pay a shit load more for the use of what we already pay for.
Rather than bullshit policies like forcing people to purchase health insurance, we should be pushing towards a single-payer system. Rather than paying taxes to use emergency services that we will have to pay an arm and a leg for again to actually use, we should figure out a way to just pay the taxes and not the excess.
I wonder why so many trust wall street to provide health care before the government. I also wonder why Republicans are so adamate about a woman having no choice but to give birth to a child but get so upset when there's talk about providing access to health care for everyone, including that child when grown up, no matter what it takes or what they can afford. What is the average age of a man when you no longer care whether he lives or not? That's what I'd like to know.
I understand how the free market determines whether or not I buy a plasma tv or a Blu-Ray DVD player. When I think about health care and peoples lives and well-being, I would prefer a government run system held accountable by the people rather than a system accountable to the stockholders looking to increase a profit margin. And the kind of health care reform being proposed probably isn't the answer, but it's a start.
Keeping people alive and healthy shouldn't be about money. It shouldn't be about whether someone can afford it or whether someone can profit on the treatment.