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Originally Posted by Rochard
Fuck you.
And your going to pay for it one way or another.
My best friend John, twenty-two years old, in perfect health, failed to wake up one morning nearly twenty years. He didn't have health insurance. He woke up four days, four operations on his brain, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt later. He has water on the brain, and since then he's had dozens of operations on his brain.
And this was just the start of his problems. He's racked up over a million dollars in medical bills, and being as he's 100% disabled he has no hope in paying any of it back. He's been through bankruptcy twice, and still has more medical bills pending. He can't get a debit card because he's so fucking broke.
By the way, thanks for taking care of his medical bills. Because he's default on millions of dollars of medical bills, our healthcare insurance went up. But wait, it gets better yet - Because the past twenty years he's been disabled. That's right - we even pay for his fucking handicap license plates.
Lazy? Is he lazy? That's fucking irrelevant. Because when he's laid up for six months unable to fucking leave his bed while the doctors debate if it's worth the risk to open up his brain again, it's completely fucking irrelevant.
Pay for it now, or pay a lot more later skippy.
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Hey Rochard,
I feel ya. It sucks for sure and I don't think your friend is lazy. Neither do some of the cretins posting in here. They're just not sharp enough to articulate their side of the debate. You can't really be angry at them for their ignorance.
What the other side is trying to say is that health care is not a right. It's not even a privilege. It's a business of goods and services to be bought and sold and no one should be getting something for free that everyone else works to pay for. You may not agree with that POV, but that's the rub. It's a philosophical difference and unless someone changes the way they think about it neither side is likely to budge.
I can see both sides of the argument and the merit in both. The only way to resolve this is a compromise of some sort.
Hell, even Richard Nixon tried to pass a law to provide health care coverage to everyone and he's hardly what you'd call a liberal.