Why can't you just get a job and pay for your own health insurance?
The "rich" don't owe you anything.
The "rich" don't owe you anything.
JazSinc
Prior to the ACA, I could not get healthcare coverage. I applied. I was denied. If I had gotten coverage, I could have had "rescission" at any point. See the movie "Saw VI." That's not "peace of mind."
When I was working, I had healthcare coverage through my employer.
It was no good. It was $20,000 per year. When I had a hospitalization my bill was $88,000.
Then my employer fired people until there were fewer than 50 employees. At that point he wasn't required to have healthcare coverage, so he canceled the coverage so he wouldn't have to keep paying for COBRA.
Shenanigans like these are why we need a real national healthcare coverage, with real regulation of the industry.
Socrates
At this point, you still can. However, if you don't want to take employer-provided healthcare, that's up to you.
humpty
You just don't get it, do you? Listen to Thomas Jefferson if you refuse to listen to me: "When the rich oppress the poor by law the poor oppress the rich by violence."
Trickle down economics has destroyed our economy and reduced the working middle class to poverty and unskilled jobs. If we don't provide hope for the masses they will come for us.
Mr. Smartypants
A few years ago my wife went on disability because of breast cancer. She got Medicare and disability, thank God, and they spent a lot on her.
But I was self-employed at the time, and I'd been using her insurance. So now I went off to look for insurance of my own. All the quote I got were the same. $750/mo. That's just for me, not a family of six. And a $4500 deductible--so I would still pay for all the care I actually got. And if I got lucky enough to have a heart attack or cancer or something really expensive, then they pay HALF! So we would still lose our house.
So yeah, a lot of people don't have health insurance. Tens of millions of Americans are trying to raise kids on little more than minimum wage, and they don't have health insurance.
Anonymous
Gay Liberal-Administrator for the Los Angeles Unified School District, get Anthem Blue Cross HMO FREE for life and into retirement. Office Visits $10, Prescriptions, $5, Ambulance Ride, $50, Helicopter ride $500,Emergency Room, $50, Recommended Treatment/Surgery = Free.