If you lose your job and insurance, you have the option of cobra. If you choose not to purchase it, then insurance is not as high on your priority list as other things. You have made a choice and are subject to the consequences of your actions.
so if you lose your job and health insurance, and get sick, you should die because obviously you are stupid and lazy.
you are only one accident or illness away from financial ruin, does that occur to you? I'm sure you will not burden the rest of us by going to the emergency room when you don't have insurance, will you?
True, I have made the decision to fore go insurance at the moment while I am in school. I do however have friends that are doctors and nurses, I also work at a hospital, so I do have access to limited healthcare out of friendship and professional courtesy. As far as coverage for a more catastrophic illness or injury, I would either be dead or paying medical bills instead of buying a new boat when I graduate. Financial ruin? I was a medic for years... At $10 an hour I had no financial stability to begin with, and my back is shot from carrying 500 pound people up and down stairs. I made the decision to go to school for a career in a relatively recession proof field that would provide me with a stable secure financial income including health insurance as I get older and much more likely to need it. This was my decision and I am quite capable of being responsible enough to accept the consequences.
As far as stupid and lazy? I work, I go to a difficult school full time, I have all but given up having a life to achieve my goals. I work as an aide in a hospital wiping asses to put myself through school. If someone is unemployed, and chooses to watch Oprah instead of job searching and improving their skill set or accepting a job that is 'beneath' them, why should my tax dollars provide them with insurance?
In short, I am intelligent and motivated for success. If one is not intelligent nor motivated, the chlorine in the gene pool should take care of them, not tax dollars. Right wrong or indifferent that is my opinion.
It's human nature to be 'charitable' towards your fellow man. I was a volunteer firefighter for years, I volunteered on a search and rescue team for years, I currently volunteer my medical skills at races. If a man wants to help his fellow man thats his decision. It is NOT the job of the government to subsidize and legislate Darwinism out of existance.
I have no problem helping my fellow man to his feet, I do have a problem with carrying people thru life. The decision on who I help should be my decision, not the governments. Is it not enough that my tax dollars are allready providing foodstamps to the poor, providing housing to the poor, providing healthcare to the poor, providing cellphones to the poor, providing spending money to the poor? Should my tax dollars really go to subsidizing healthcare for able bodied Americans?? What next? government subsidized cars and gas cards? Government subsidized cable tv?
I must admit, i really don't undertsand the point your are trying to make here
where to even begin. a simple fact is the better educated, wealthier, and healthier people are the LESS they reproduce
Are you saying we should support high school dropout, drug addicted and obese people in their quest to multiply like rabbits? Or are you saying that its a bad thing that educated, employed, healthy people make a decision about family size that is inline with their resources and lifestyle? Or possibly that if we simply give everyone a college degree, money and healthcare, that it will equate to fewer OctoMom's and knocked up crack whores? You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink, Subsidizing and surrounding him with 400 cases of Aquafina is not going to make him any more likely to drink.
Disclaimer: this entire reply was done entirely with free thinking from my own mind. There is no cut and paste. :sifone:
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