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What types of medical needs are putting a strain on the health insurance system in the U.S.?
Let's brainstorm. I'll start.
Premature births in the U.S. have reached historic highs in the last several years. http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsite... Putting kids in the NICU is expensive. Really expensive. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some cases over a million. Wouldn't that push up premiums? The overall cost of premature births on the health care industry is estimated at $26 Billion. http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsite...
Why should we be saving premature babies on the consumer dime? Because they're cute and innocent? They may be, but that doesn't make it any cheaper to incubate them into viablity, and how can you place babies at higher importance than other humans when it comes to insuring their outrageous medical needs? Maybe we'd be better off if they were chalked up to a late miscarriage. You can always try again.
Also worth exploring: People who eat themselves fat and get rushed to the ER/CCU after heart attacks and strokes. Why should the system spring for all these people.
WHERE in God's name does individual responsibility kick in?
mcq - How Darwinian of you. You know, that might actually work. And it would allow humans to continue evolving. Survival of the fittest, not survival of the weakest, right?
IceT - Maybe you're right, but you need to cite a source of that info.
Mike - Good intuition, I am child-free. But does my cavalier attitude make it any less true that those who can't afford the consequences of their reproductive habits are contributing a fair amount to our country's health care problems?
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- MikeGolfLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The ironic thing here is that the reason for the oft cited statistic that we have a high infant mortality rate is due to the fact that we actually try to save premature babies. Since we include premature infants in the mortality rate ous appears higher than those countries that do not try to save premature infants.
And I can tell that you are not a parent with your cavilier attitude towards the survival of a premature infant.
- 1 decade ago
AMEN!!!!
Don't forget the drug addicts, drunks, fertility women, illegal aliens and many others.
If you are a drunk/drug addict it's not up to me to pay or supply your choice of remedy nor is up to me to have you face your past and clean up where your childhood failed you!
To be a mother is a gift not a right! If you don't have the money to get yourself pregnant, then you don't have the money to afford a child!
As far as illegals, I'm sure if we stop any and all available resources to them we could find millions, if not billions, of money that we could avail to our Fire, Police and The future of our children's Educational system!
For that matter, why do people on welfare (people who live off of the working people of America, not just Americans) have pets and don't file their taxes? They should be monitored more then the people who do legit work!
The biggest hypocrisy are those that don't think we are good people yet we are good enough to use OUR resources and take OUR money. Talk about not wanting to have integrity. I would never throw my integrity away by using anyone to get something.
AMERICA LOVE IT OR GET THE HELL OUT!
This is just my opinion...
- mcq316Lv 71 decade ago
Lets get rid of medicine altogether. Let the naturally healthy be the ones who live longer, let the weak and the sick and the injured die off. That'll save a couple bucks.
