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Originally Posted by Angst
Only in a capitalist society, the inability to pay for health care (or insurance) is a death sentence. But then poor people don't deserve to live.
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In this society at least, the poor Do have Medicaid as an option, and in several states the Pre-Natal coverage is better than anything you could pay for (Mainly because due to a high infant mortality rate the states lose Government funding. It doesn't matter that the mortality rate may reflect one segment of the population, it affects all, so MA coverages pre natal, birth and the babies up to a year automatically, after that they have to apply for the babies, but most continue to qualify.)
The folks most hurt are the lower middle and middle classes. They don't qualify for any of the programs that might help them, nor can they (usually) afford private health insurance.
We might be able to afford to give everyone some kind of coverage... just look at what we spend in ER "routine care" families going to the ER 5 and 6 times a year because MD's don't want to accept MA as payment (they didn't seem to mind taking government money for those loans that will be extended for years until they're making the big bucks...hmmm
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I have a hard time reconciling "giving" everyone coverage if it's going to have any inpact on mine... mainly because I was raised to take care of myself, I chose a lousy paying civil service job because the benefits were much better than the ones offered by the private companies. If I were now going to lose these, it'd have to mean a pretty big jump in salary to make up for it all... otherwise, why bother? Sorry,
