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Should Healthcare insurance be mandatory for everyone?
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Should Healthcare insurance be mandatory for everyone?
No you shouldn't mandate profits for corporate businesses.
What about government healthcare insurance?
Should Healthcare insurance be mandatory for everyone?
No it shouldn't be mandatory for anyone. If you do not want to seek medical aid then that is your business. IF you would rather pay for medical care upfront or work out a payment system then that is your business. The tax payers should have no obligation what so ever to pay for your medical care.
Except the taxpayers WILL have an obligation to pay for your medical care if you don't have insurance.
If it turns out he doesn't have insurance, who should be responsible for his medical costs?
The taxpayers? I'd rather make insurance mandatory so that people can't pass their costs off to the taxpayers, by being selfish and irresponsible by not having insurance.
Then change the law so that tax payers will not have to foot the bill.
He should be responsible for his cost.
I would rather require that the person who got the medical care to pay for it. Work out a payment plan. Allow hospitals to deduct it out of that persons paycheck. Maybe set up some sort of hopital community service to make up for the cost.
Then change the law so that tax payers will not have to foot the bill.
jamesrage said:He should be responsible for his cost.
I would rather require that the person who got the medical care to pay for it. Work out a payment plan. Allow hospitals to deduct it out of that persons paycheck. Maybe set up some sort of hopital community service to make up for the cost.
It will just raise rates for everybody, if all are forced to purchase insurance.
First of all, you have the people who can't get insurance because of an expensive medical condition, or at least can't get coverage for that condition. Insurance companies would have to be forced to take them, and thus raise the rate for the entire pool for the additional risk they have taken on.
WI Crippler said:Next, you have people who cannot afford health insurance, who would be forced to pay. That's an additional burden on them, and if they don't pay, then there is the additional cost in either fining, jailing, or otherwise disciplining those that refuse.
Who WILL foot the bill then? The hospital?
What if he doesn't have any money, or dies, or declares bankruptcy?
The patient can foot the bill. The hospital can work out a payment plan a hospital community service plan or get a court to deducted a certian amount of money from someone's paycheck.
So you are arguing that the debts of dead people should be paid to companies by tax payer? That is basically what you are arguing since there is no way a hundred bucks a month or more of insurance can possibly pay for some surgeries and operations, other tax payer will be picking up that debt.
It will just raise rates for everybody, if all are forced to purchase insurance.
First of all, you have the people who can't get insurance because of an expensive medical condition, or at least can't get coverage for that condition. Insurance companies would have to be forced to take them, and thus raise the rate for the entire pool for the additional risk they have taken on.
Next, you have people who cannot afford health insurance, who would be forced to pay. That's an additional burden on them, and if they don't pay, then there is the additional cost in either fining, jailing, or otherwise disciplining those that refuse.
So your solution is to force hospitals to treat people for emergency care, and then stick them with the bill if the person is unable to pay for whatever reason. Got it. :doh
Then the solution is to stop the practice of forcing hospitals to treat people who can not pay. If that person can not or refuses to pay then the hospital can sue the person who owes them money.
A person such as myself that will not seek medical treatment should not be forced to pay for insurance.
All of my family knows not to send me in for treatment regardless of the situation.
Now if they follow that when the time comes is beyond my control. If they decide to go against my will then I also expect them to foot the bill.