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Originally Posted by mardigras
Simple... by having all the healthy people who weren't buying insurance in the system there is more money to cover the costs of those who need it. Healthy people have low medical costs.
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Thank God this shit wasn't around to force me to buy insurance when I was a young man.
Like most young men, I was in college...had a wife and kid, a house payment, a car payment, all my bills etc. and just BARELY made ends meet each week.
I didn't want or need health insurance. And neither did 99.9% of the people that were in my age group.
I can't imagine where I would have gotten the extra money to buy health insurance on top of everything else when I was 20 years old.
Oh, wait a minute...that's right...the govt. will force your parents to pay for it until your 26 years old. Because parents in their 40's and 50's don't have anything better to spend their money on right?
Retirement savings? Going on a vacation? Keeping your own money? Hell no! lol
The real answer would have been for the govt. to put an end to the price gouging that hospitals do and stop the pharmaceutical companies from charging U.S. citizens 3 to 4 times MORE for the same medications than they do in other countries.
Then everybody could pay their own goddamn medical bills and only have "insurance" for what it was originally supposed to be: for a catastrophe (car wreck, heart surgery, etc.) instead of having to use it everytime you stub your toe.