Bill, if you buy that Lexus and then can't afford it they take it away from you and your credit report will take a hit and you'll likely be unable to go back to that dealer and buy another. When you have a heart attack they call an ambulance...rush you to the hospital...you may well incur 3, 4, 5x the value of that Lexus before all is said and done. If you can't pay...if you have assets they may press you into bankruptcy...if you don't the provider is SOL. Your credit report may well take a hit but if next week the same thing happens... the ambulance will be called, you'll receive the best medical care they can deliver and again the providers may well be out $100K-$200K in uncollectable medical services.
90% of people are insured and the uninsured get treatment by going to the ER..and we pay for it.
You're right re: about paying taxes and it being a matter of who receives the money. I don't want to be argumentative, just present my views. My family and I have always been reluctant to seek medical treatment. For colds, minor illnesses, etc.., we've just stuck it out. Yet, in my work, I've seen people that flock to ER's with things like headaches. I've even encountered people seeking treatment in mental health units because, "I just want to get out of that damned house"....It's no big deal to them the costs that others pay.
Would you please stop talking out of both sides of your mouth? You support Trump's decision, but oppose any consequences (which you are sure to blame Trump for). What a huge, raging vagina you are.
I'm a stickler for the misuse of terms, so forgive me for my one comment. Healthcare can never be a basic human right. A right is something you can do yourself and does not rely of the efforts of others. Healthcare can be privilege that is made available to all. The end result may be similar, but the term right should never be used in the context of a service or product provided by a third party. Fundamentally, a person does not have the right to the labor of someone else.I love it when people who clearly have "blockers and blinders" fitted to themselves accuse others of the same.
I guess in the end it comes down to if you believe that healthcare should be a basic human right or a source of profiteering.
You don't know the answers but you know what the answers are not.... It works in every other country in which it is used but it can't work here...sure dude. Tell me who the ideologue is here.
We have a system that is incentivized to keep you in the system. To keep you dependent upon its services, to keep you dependent upon its drugs. A system so expensive that only the very top of the economic spectrum could ever afford it without the socialized network that is healthcare insurance.
Yes, research would be slowed...so we won't know what we don't know. That's a small price to pay.
I don't necessarily want healthcare professionals who are motivated by how much can they make. Doctors have always been well paid. There is never enough. The man who earns $250K wants to earn $500K. If they earn $500K they want $750K...$1M...they always want more and they earn more by ordering more tests, scheduling more appointments...few are positioned to question their judgment.
Foreign doctors that come to the US are not necessarily that nation's best and brightest. The MD that finished last in his class can immigrate here just as easily as the MD who finished first. We see very few coming here from those European nations...they come from Pakistan, India, the Caribbean, Philippines and Mexico. Those 5 nations (yes i know the Caribbean isn't a nation) account for 60% of all foreign docs in the US. A large percentage of the remaining come from other middle eastern countries. Foreign docs make up 30% of all docs in the US... 10% in Germany... 27% in Sweden... 30% in the UK...so remind me how we are so different?
Coming from 3rd world countries it doesn't take much
You forgot to include their most current smartphone. Wife is in the Healthcare industry and the # of stories she has of a patients who are poor and/or do not have healthcare but have the latest $1000+ phone would piss you off. Most are on Medicaid and every other government assistance program and they have absolutely no shame asking nurses or doctors for money so they can buy stuff from the vending machines or pay for their $5 prescriptions all the while being absolutely impossible to deal with because of their sense of entitlement.
Platnidumb and the left have been asking for it for years (which I don't disagree with) but now he is blaming Trump for genocide. Hey Plat! Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Blame those who will do the killing.
False, millennials want to spend their parents money or taxpayers and not their own. You are wrong again.
