Issue - Health Care
Rush Limbaugh some months ago said he didn't have any health insurance and didn't see why tax payers should sign on to any universal health care proposal.
Give me a break.
So, who pays your health care costs. Probably for many working Americans, their employer pays all or a portion of their health insurance premiums.
For many, they pay their own premiums.
Finally there are two groups without insurance. The really poor and the working poor.
The really poor probably qualify for government sponsored program known as Medical in this state.
The working poor have nothing? They have to spend themselves down to very poor in order to qualify. They may find it makes sense to quit work to obtain medical care for themselves or their families. Is this type of rational behaviour harmful to society?
Once they get to very poor, then we taxpayer's pick up the tab anyway.
As a society, what is wrong with universal health care, with upgrades. Couldn't we give every citizen a voucher good for some private health plan. Presumably something like a lean Kaiser Plan. Every health insurer would have to allow the voucher to up supplemented with an upgrade to a better plan. The voucher could be given to your employer to reduce its premium cost
In other words, aren't the tax payers paying for universal care anyway?
Give me a break.
So, who pays your health care costs. Probably for many working Americans, their employer pays all or a portion of their health insurance premiums.
For many, they pay their own premiums.
Finally there are two groups without insurance. The really poor and the working poor.
The really poor probably qualify for government sponsored program known as Medical in this state.
The working poor have nothing? They have to spend themselves down to very poor in order to qualify. They may find it makes sense to quit work to obtain medical care for themselves or their families. Is this type of rational behaviour harmful to society?
Once they get to very poor, then we taxpayer's pick up the tab anyway.
As a society, what is wrong with universal health care, with upgrades. Couldn't we give every citizen a voucher good for some private health plan. Presumably something like a lean Kaiser Plan. Every health insurer would have to allow the voucher to up supplemented with an upgrade to a better plan. The voucher could be given to your employer to reduce its premium cost
In other words, aren't the tax payers paying for universal care anyway?
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