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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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fuck you too.
I have no apologies for what I wrote. You emotionally replied about your friend John. Does your friend John sound lazy? I don't think so at all. Sounds like he was very unlucky, had to have brain surgery and get this, I don't mind paying for him one bit either. I am glad to pay for him. It sounds like he really needed the help.
I know I didn't do the best job of explaining what I meant by being "lazy" but I thought most people here would have understood in the context of what I was saying instead of getting all emotional. Either way, I thought I made it clear that I didn't mind my tax dollars going to people who really needed/deserved the help. That my problem was with the people who were abusing the system and were irresponsible.
How do you feel about this? Do you mind that some of the money you pay in taxes go to people who could afford health care but choose to spend their money on other things like nicer cars, or renting more expensive apartments, or they spend their money on drugs, alcohol or gambling. Or the people who are straight up defrauding the system. Or the people who purposely make irresponsible choices like having five kids when they can't afford one.
You are right I pay for it, you pay for it, we all pay for medicaid, medicare out of our paychecks. Hell I pay for it twice since I am self employed and have to "match" what they take out of the pay check I cut myself. I don't agree however, that all of the costs of this new health care bill is going to be JUST put on the backs of everyone who makes over 250K a year. I think everyone should have to pay for it equally just like everyone who collects a check pays for medicare and medicaid now. But the bottom line is, if they said "everyone" was going to pay for it instead of just the rich, then it would have never passed. No one has a problem making sure the poor have health care when they doing it with some one else's money, but if it was their money, a lot of people would have decided against it.