No, but you clearly need to go back to English Composition 101. If you’re framing something as your thesis argument then it needs to actually contain the elements you’re claiming that it does. The quote that you selected says nothing about anyone’s desire to buy insurance, whether privately or via a government program or anything else. Nothing. For you to use it as validation of a claim that people don’t want to buy insurance is creating things out of whole cloth.
Your cites are opinion piece garbage. I could give a rip about your so-called cites. Editorials and the flailing of biased pundits aren’t facts.
Medicaid wouldn’t provide them anything, if they’re working, which the majority of uninsured people are, and if they’re single and childless, even if they’re not working, they’re not likely to get a damn thing from Medicaid. So reel that stupidity right back in because it’s just not a part of the reality-based world.
Another stupid talking point. The government isn’t taking anything other. It never was going to take anything over. That phrasing is straight out of the Right Wing Book of Scary Lies.
You know what they say you do when you assume, Smashy old friend? Yeah, you just did it.
Note that none of your speculating extends to why young and currently healthy people “don’t want” to buy insurance. If they have to buy it, that means that it’s not offered to them via their employer. That means buying on the private market – something that only 5% of insured people do – which is outrageously expensive, often so much so that it’s inaccessible to young people who are just starting out, especially if they have a lot of educational debt, and low, starter salaries. As an example, a friend of mine quoted his insurance rate just this morning, as a 28 year old, non-smoking, single white professional male – lawyer – he’s paying $9,600 annually. It’s about 1/4 of his pre-tax salary.
I “don’t want” to buy things that are so extremely pricey that they will create a significant downward change in my standard of living, even if I could if I made a lot of steep sacrifices.
Yes, and the biggest reason why people are uninsured is because of the cost, and there has been sufficient obfuscation and misleading and fearmongering, mostly from opponents of any reform, as to whether reform would lead to price reductions for consumers. One of the strongest aspects of reform in terms of affordability and accessibility was the public option which is now pretty much dead, thanks to that same obfuscation and fearmongering.
