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Originally Posted by stengun
Howdy,
Gee, the health care plan is kinda like the death penality. With the death penality, being for it or against usually depends on what end of the rope you are on. 
I'm 45yo. Show me someone my age that does not have health insurance that would be against the health care plan.
Well over half of the employers in Arkansas do not offer health insurance for their employees. The majority of the employers that do provide health insurance is unaffordable for the employees to purchase. If you make $12.00/hr and health insurance cost $3.00/hr, it kinda cuts into your bottom line. I know there are not many people on here that make $12.00/hour, but like here in Arkansas, there are more $8.00/hr jobs than there are $25.00/hr jobs and the insurance cost the same no matter how much or little you make.
Yeah, I how, everybody needs to get educated so they can get a better paying job.
Gee, if everybody in the USA had a PhD., then someone with a PhD. would be scrubbing the toilets aand busing tables, so that doesn't really work either.
Jobs are kinda like a pyramid, a bunch of crappy ones at the bottom and only a few at the top.
Me? I went out and got a job that has great health insurance and everytime my employer runs a help wanted ad in the paper, there are +100 peeps apply for just one job and one of the main reasons is health insurance.
In the state of Arkansas, there are only 110 hourly employees at General Cable, where I work, but there are several thousand at MickeyD's.
Paul |
Well, IF the health care plan would reduce costs, who could be against it? But it is a Government takeover of health care. It WILL NOT reduce costs for anyone. It WILL dramatically increase costs and taxes for everyone.
How can I say that about an unpassed bill? EASY!!! Look at any and all previous Government programs of any kind in our history. They fail to cost what they project. They cost double to 10 TIMES what they are supposed to cost. And they overcomplicate what they propose to simplify.
The best example in health care is MEDICARE. Projected to cost $65 MILLION per year or $650 MILLION per decade. Actual cost has been in excess of $1 TRILLION per decade. That is 1500 TIMES the projected cost. LOOK IT UP!!!!
If the health care bill is passed, to help all those who cannot afford health care, those that CAN afford health care today, WON'T be able to afford it in future. And those that today cannot afford health care will be ROYALLY screwed.
Health Insurance Companies, the DEVILS!
Who sets their rates? Them? NO, politicians do.
And rate increases? Politicians do!
Who approves their policies? Politicians do!
Who sets their PROFIT margins? Politicians do!
Who regulates their coverage area? Politicians do!
Who issues the licenses of insurers? Politicians do!
Everything about Insurance Companies is completely regulated by Politicians. Where is the logic in thinking that more interference by politicians will solve the problems they have created?