. I'll pay a lot more than that for the luxury of flushing my toilets this year.
Your cousin is a MORON. Would he have taken his car to the mechanic if it was sputtering and idling fast? Or would he have waited until his car stalled on the highway? There's something called personal responsibility, and your cousin clearly doesn't have much of it. If he was that sick and didn't bother going to the doctor because he was too cheap, then his priorities are out of wack. But I bet he pays out the nose for his cell phone and cable service.
I am one of those Americans without health insurance, and I absolutely do not want it from the gov't. I *choose* to take care of my own medical bills so *I* can make my own choices as far as what drs I see and when. We do have catastrophic insurance because we're not idiots. Because the state I live in has some BS gov't run heathcare and started dicking around with too many insurance regulations, it's now way too cost prohibitive for a middle class family to self insure. My monthly premium skyrocketted to well over my monthly mortgage payment, and I built my house when house prices were through the roof.
There have been many times I've thought to myself, "do I really need to see a dr and pay $125 for an office visit?" And you know, if I'm sick, I freaking do it. In fact yesterday, we just received a bill for $500 for me to have some basal cell removed. So the freak what. I'll pay a lot more than that on my electricity bill over the next few months, and I don't expect the gov't to pay for that either (what? electricity in the US should be a right!:roll
So when I think of these people (who you know dang right well have iPods and awesome cellphones) who are too cheap to drop $100 to see a dr to take care of their health, I don't have a lot of sympathy. If you're dirt poor, the gov't will pay it anyway. If you're not dirt poor, poney up the cash and quityerbitchen.
/rant
And your argument is based on the assumption that having insurance wouldn't have made a difference.
Your cousin is a MORON. Would he have taken his car to the mechanic if it was sputtering and idling fast? Or would he have waited until his car stalled on the highway? There's something called personal responsibility, and your cousin clearly doesn't have much of it. If he was that sick and didn't bother going to the doctor because he was too cheap, then his priorities are out of wack. But I bet he pays out the nose for his cell phone and cable service.
I am one of those Americans without health insurance, and I absolutely do not want it from the gov't. I *choose* to take care of my own medical bills so *I* can make my own choices as far as what drs I see and when. We do have catastrophic insurance because we're not idiots. Because the state I live in has some BS gov't run heathcare and started dicking around with too many insurance regulations, it's now way too cost prohibitive for a middle class family to self insure. My monthly premium skyrocketted to well over my monthly mortgage payment, and I built my house when house prices were through the roof.
There have been many times I've thought to myself, "do I really need to see a dr and pay $125 for an office visit?" And you know, if I'm sick, I freaking do it. In fact yesterday, we just received a bill for $500 for me to have some basal cell removed. So the freak what. I'll pay a lot more than that on my electricity bill over the next few months, and I don't expect the gov't to pay for that either (what? electricity in the US should be a right!:roll
So when I think of these people (who you know dang right well have iPods and awesome cellphones) who are too cheap to drop $100 to see a dr to take care of their health, I don't have a lot of sympathy. If you're dirt poor, the gov't will pay it anyway. If you're not dirt poor, poney up the cash and quityerbitchen.
/rant
It was probably a miracle cure that wiped out the flu. I could continue to make up some more stupidity like you did but I'll just stop there.
Nope, he's a single father (black man go figure eh?) with 2 small children. His wife died of ovarian cancer in march 2009, she was undiagnosed until January 2009. No cell phone, basic cable, old car, renting.
I wish you would and I wish he knew it.
No you're making an assumption that things wouldn't have been different had he had insurance.
No, he couldn't afford to take time off. So he worked, undiagnosed but ill, until he was unable to continue working.
If he had health insurance his doctor could have diagnosed the flu and not just a seasonal cold, prescribed medication, given him a note for his employer so he wouldn't lose his position, told him to get bed rest. He probably wouldn't have gotten pneumonia.