# Insurance company poopyheads **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurance-company-poopyheads/502151 "2009-07-07T01:54:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurance-company-poopyheads/502151/60 "2009-07-08T09:21:40Z")
> [@Maia\_s\_Well](#): > > I want get personal here for a moment, and sort of apologize to curlcoat and other 'dopers here who would prefer taxes not be taken to give insurance to people who have not been able to get it or keep it privately. I understand how you feel. If people here didn’t think in black and white and enjoy jumping to conclusions, you would not have had to make this post. At least, not to me. You are not in any way the sort of person that I do not want to pay taxes toward. You didn’t have any choice in getting MS, and you are not sitting back with an entitlement attitude towards your SSDI and Medicare. My position is, and always has been, that not every one of the millions that do not have insurance are in that position thru no fault of their own - I don’t even think a majority are. Lack of insurance is only one indication of how far too many US citizens cannot be bothered to be responsible for themselves. Hell, I’m on SSDI myself, tho I managed to make it to 51 before I had to give up working. Haven’t had to make the Medicare decision yet… 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insurance-company-poopyheads/502151)._