My friend’s father needed some dental work done. He has to wait until December 27th! This is a private insurance company we’re talking about. The free market in action! It’s not just government that rations health care you know.
And yes, it is possible you’ve been living in a bubble. Surveys show that 100% of deluded people don’t think they’re deluded.
*"*Wah! You won’t give me money and take care of me. What a selfish, evil piece of shit you are! Wah, hah, hah…"
Grow a pair and take on an extra part-time job or find a way to make money on the side and pay for your fucking insurance and quit wanting everybody else to grease your slide through life.
And you call me a greedy piece of shit! :rolleyes: I’m not taking anything away from you, motherfucker! Any so-called greed on my part consists of resisting you taking what’s mine! So fucko off, mmkay, and haul your stupid, selfish, entitled ass in front of a mirror and start yelling ‘selfish’ and ‘greedy’, and ‘bloody minded fool’! At least it’ll be aimed in the right direction!
And now I’m out for the evening. Piss of…uh, I mean peace out!
But that’s the thing. Some people’s conditions are beyond their earning power. You would have them die because you’re too bloody minded to fix the system. It isn’t about me. I’m perfectly healthy and still in the “it’ll never happen to me!” phase of life.
It does happen to people though. Real, catastrophic problems that are beyond their ability to pay for. This either results in bankruptcy or death. Sometimes it’s pre-existing.
How many people are stuck in jobs they hate because as soon as they change it’s pre-existing? How many get have the misfortune to get sick during tough times (say the recent, and current economic devastation, for example)? How many are born with conditions that even two full time jobs wouldn’t make enough to cover?
Your approach is to kill them, or if they’re lucky, just financially ruin them.
Meanwhile, places with not just public options, but full blown UHC, have 1/2 the costs and healthier populations, with private options, if desired affordable.
The hypothetical coverage denied kidney patient friend would be treated in the UK, but, at best financially ruined, in the US.
You’d have us stick that barbaric system, because why? Because fuck them you have yours? It certainly isn’t because of costs, and it works better, as measured by population health.
People like you are the antonym to civilization. Your backward kind angers me so.