Health bill price too high for America
The health care bill is unprecedented in requiring Americans to buy something that should be optional and voluntary.
The bill's proponents claim they want to help uninsured millions who are "denied" care, but I myself am uninsured and recently received excellent care for a back injury at MUSC. The hospital's private charity covered 95 percent of my cost, and my friends, family and church community helped with living expenses until I returned to work.
This kind of private solution is what Americans need, not government interference and control. I am healthy and rarely visit a doctor; I don't want to be forced to buy insurance, wasting a percentage of my income to effectively pay for sick people for whom I am not responsible. It is more efficient for me to pay out of pocket and be helped by my private community. Let the private sector work; more government bureaucracy is the last thing we need. This disastrous bill will only further bankrupt America.
REBEKAH ACKERMAN
Lenix in the comments gets it:
LENIX wrote on 03/16/2010 12:32:58 PM:
So Rebecca, its okay for you to not choose to have your self insured, but then beg for that handout when it is convenient to you??? Hahahahahaha!! And then you have those on here who actually condone your behavior/double standard!!! Hahahahahahaha!!! Only in SC, only in SC.....
Thanks to Lapin for the link.
And the key phrase is:
ReplyDelete"..wasting a percentage of my income to effectively pay for sick people for whom I am not responsible."
Ah! Socialism again. I don't know how I cope living here what with all the responsibility I have for others.
DP, I don't know how you bear up. Life is hard in England.
ReplyDeleteI must be crazy and living in the wrong country, for I believe in the wacky concept of the common good.
It's far cheaper to have a physician treat an illness than have an uninsured person go to whatever emergency room will see him or her. Why can't the greedy understand the true economics of their resistance to single payer health care? The wealthy can still get the care they want because they can afford it. The people who will be helped are those who just had their rates increased 40% and those who were just cancelled. The insurance industry sure has the Fox watchers buffaloed.
ReplyDeletePiskie, Rebekah's letter is a fine example of what passes for "critical thinking" in the US today.
ReplyDeleteUmmmm....I really hate to tell Rebekah that the charity fund that paid for 95% if her hospital bill was from the Indigent Care Trust Fund.........tax payer money paid by you and me. I think a Thank You card to all the citizens of the US who paid their taxes the year she had her surgery would be in order. It would have been cheaper for us for Rebekah to have paid for health insurance.
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand why people who partake of the charity of their local hospitals think this is "local" money. The kind of charity Rebekah speaks of ended about 30 years ago.
Two Auntees, I think we deserve thank you notes, too. Thanks for the information. I'll try to leave a comment at the newspaper's site.
ReplyDeleteTwo Auntees, I registered and pretty much stole your words and left a comment. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI am healthy and rarely visit a doctor
ReplyDeleteIt's just never struck her that this could all change permanently in an instant any time, has it? Has she never heard of accidents, for instance? What if she got hit by a car tomorrow, or got told out of nowhere she cancer, or a heart defect she didn't know about? Does she really think she retains her good health purely because of some virtue of her own? I'm not saying good health isn't down to choices to a degree, but since when was the poor health of other people a matter of their supposed undeserving moral weakness? And even if it was, why does she think that entitles her to indifference?
What part of "private sector" is a state run and funded Medical University of South Carolina. I think, also, that charity care should be for those who cannot afford to pay not for those who chose NOT TO PAY!!
ReplyDeletecharity care should be for those who cannot afford to pay not for those who chose NOT TO PAY!!
ReplyDeleteAgree with this absolutely.
Cathy, what can I say?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, yes indeed! Why not leave a comment at The State?
Even by the standards of South Carolina "letters to the editor", this one is a winner in the mindless confusion stakes. Near choked on my breakfast when I first read it. Thanks to the Two Auntees for the comment and to Mimi for re-posting that comment at the State.
ReplyDeleteWhat a letter to the editor- stunning in its selfishness and willful blindness.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to the common good and foresight and just plain ole' decency?!
While living here drives me nuts at times, there is much to be said for a strong sense of community.
You see, this is why I want people like Rebekah to get exactly what they keep asking for;
ReplyDeleteI want them to get a society away from all us leeches, I want them to go somewhere all together to form their utopia, taking their tax money and their property (or fair value thereof) and settle into one big society of the same mind. Let them make their world of libertarian/conservative christian morality, every man for himself and God favors the good man.
Then, I want to watch as they break down, unable to take care of themselves and with no one else to take care of them. I want soldiers at the border of their little utopia, to point their guns at them anytime they think of coming back to our "socialist" country, until they have so broken themselves on their own selfishness and stupidity they beg to pay higher taxes than anyone else just to be allowed back in.
Mark, we all have our dreams. Sometimes dreams come true. :-)
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