We need to find a solution to the millions of people and growing that have no health insurance.
The true number of uninsured Americans is anywhere between 5 and 30 million, depending on how you want to calculate it. Millions of the uninsured can afford health insurance, but choose for one reason or another not to purchase it. The government's official figure, touted by the Obama administration last year, was just under 46 million, but failed to account, for example, for the (conservatively estimated) 11 million undocumented workers in this country. It also ignores the large number of uninsured who can afford health insurance or are the minor of someone who can, but chooses not to carry coverage for whatever reason.
We all pay for them any way. No one gets turned away from a hospital and you can go day or night into emergency rooms in populated areas and its full of people with thier kids that are sick with no insurance. Were paying for it...
If you see the problem as one of having to pay for the uninsured by way of increased costs and premiums due to offsetting the unpaid expenses of "free riders" then perhaps you should be advocating for reform the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), the federal law requiring hospitals to provide care to those who cannot pay.
...to just say everyone has to buy their own is just well dumb...everyone knows thats not possible.
No more than saying that every one is responsible for paying for his own gas so he can drive to and from work each day or paying for his own life insurance so his funeral costs aren't dumped on those he leaves behind. As with virtually everything else in life, if you can't afford something, you go without it. People faced with the choice of buying health insurance (or saving for unexpected medical expenses) or, let's say, eating out and seeing the most recent movies more often each month would be more apt to make the wiser choice if we forced them to actually live with the consequences of their choices. It's called accountability, something EMTALA does a lot to undermine.
In my county in flordia every resident pays 50 a yr to the community hospital for indigent care. I dont know if business pays it, Im assuming they do.
I suggest you find out how that's paid for because I guarantee you pay it. One way or another. If the government provides it, it's paid by tax dollars. If the government forces businesses to pay for it, that business has raised the price of its goods and services in order to cover it. Any tax on business is passed on to consumers. Businesses don't pay taxes, people do. If you think your community is getting away without paying the bill then you need to examine the money trail more closely, I think.
Obama care is a mess and it wont work and even the writers know it wont work because they are giving waivers out like candy.
It is a mess and it won't work if by "work" you mean "improve the quality and lower the cost of healthcare". The point of Obamacare isn't to develop a world-class health delivery system or reduce costs. Anyone who has read the bill's provisions can see that plainly. Obamacare is merely a wealth transfer agent and a giant step towards full government control of 1/7th of the U.S. economy. It is a vote-buying scheme, designed to render ever greater numbers of potential voters dependent on government for their livelihood in order to create a permanent electoral majority for the Santa Claus party. Democrats love to act magnanimous and hand out "free" goodies to "children" (both naughty and nice) and be loved in return, but the truth is that Santa Claus doesn't exist and when children unwrap their gifts and empty their stockings on Christmas Day, it's the adults in the room that paid for everything.
The gop and the dem have to sit down and work out a solution, but that wont happen until aliens land here and show them how to do it.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and rammed Obamacare down Americans throats, in case you were sleeping for most of 2009-2010. Had they taken their time, pitched the bill and worked across the aisle for reasonable compromise, they still could have delivered a transformative bill that would have been palatable to moderate Republicans and independent voters. They shot themselves in the foot with their "take no prisoners" approach, however, and created the tidal wave of public backlash. The reason getting Democrats and Republicans to "work out a solution" is because Democrats are aliens. They have come to earth, with no appreciation of its heritage or what makes it a good place to live except its resources, they want to plunder those resources and give them to another planet, they see themselves as our betters, they seek to be our masters. Republicans are the ones telling E.T. to go home and keep his hands off or, as Randy Quaid memorable told the aliens in
Independence Day, "up yours!" When one group says "gimme!" and the other says "hands off!" there isn't much room for compromise. Republicans and Democrats see the problem itself very differently. Democrats see a lack of government intervention as a problem. Republicans see government intervention as the problem. Where's the common ground in that? This is why we have elections, so the voters can decide which side they agree with more.
