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Originally Posted by mardigras
When someone goes to the hospital for healthcare, you pay for that, and pay MUCH more than it would cost for them to go to a doctor and WAY MORE than preventative care would have been in the first place.
Do you want the person who serves your meal to expose you to TB or other illness because they couldn't afford to go to the doctor, couldn't afford to not work and didn't inform their boss so they could keep working?
Young people are as much if not more likely to be involved in an accident. Sudden illnesses can hit anyone regardless of age or recent health. If only older/sick people bought insurance the cost would be astronomical, if available at all.
By your logic of people waiting until they are in need of healthcare before buying insurance, then why not wait on buying car insurance until you have an accident or home insurance until there is damage?
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That seems like sound logic, but how could introducing more players into the game lower the costs? Imagine for a second that no one in the US has health insurance...now you bring insurance into the equation, obviously insurance company is a for profit business, so how could letting them get involved lower costs?
It seems pretty clear to me that if you let insurance companies suck out more money out of the healthcare system the costs can only rise....
