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What I dislike about Medicare, Obamacare, and any form of socialized health care, etc., is that they eschew and penalize personal responsibility, and finance and reward bad life and lifestyle choices.
What I dislike about Medicare, Obamacare, and any form of socialized health care, etc., is that they eschew and penalize personal responsibility, and finance and reward bad life and lifestyle choices.
We all can't be saints personified like you and I!
I know we have Obama-care and not at all very likely to ever happen, but hypothetically speaking, if every U.S politician decided they wanted a healthcare system just like in the U.K or other European countries practically identical for every U.S citizen what would it take, and how much would our politicians have to sacrifice to get it?
1) Having a majority want that.
2) Getting Doctors and medical people to take a huge pay cut
3) Hammering Big Pharma to reduce prices.
4) hammering the medical research industry, especially their funding source.
5) Severely limit medical torts - this should be higher on the list
This is going to happen in time but it might be 10-15 years. Politicians will follow the votes.
Methinks statements like made on here regarding other countries being inferior as regards their system of healthcare delivery should be taken with a grain of salt.
Finally; keep yours and we'll keep ours. See who lives longest....oh wait, we've already established that would be virtually EVERYBODY else.
Not necessarily. Ever wonder how Lloyd's of London determines the premiums to charge for obscure insurance policies?
Sure but LLoyd's is willing to take a loss if offset by other gains. Aside from gamblers, educated and rational folks don't want to take profound risks with their health.
Contribution plus compounded interest. Frankly, I'd like to have ALL of that back. I'll get a MUCH better deal self-insuring.
I've seen your compounded interest calculations. They are completely laughable, I am not interested in seeing your self-written lottery ticket again. But end it? Yes, I would end it and the best way to end it is to just calculate contributions and say you're done after that, go buy insurance.
What's the point of penalizing the responsible and rewarding the irresponsible?
It is not always that cut and dried or so simple. Many people totally responsible like myself and wife can be hit with very serious disease and medical bills. And also the other side, where total medical miscreants die from having too much sex at 101!
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