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If you're stupid enough to run up the bills, the people you cheated should have the right to collect them. Period!
The debts in this latest scandal are hospital bills - people (especially in emergencies) don't choose to end up in the hospital. They end up there, and then apparently at least in Minnesota, the debt vultures come looking for some flesh...
Private enterprise is always better than govt., right?
Only if you live in a binary world. The government performs many tasks more efficiently than private enterprise. Or at least could. Fire departments are an example. Their role is public safety independent of a profit motive.
If you're stupid enough to run up the bills, the people you cheated should have the right to collect them. Period!
It's not much different from sex; don't seek gratification until you have the responsibility to deal with the consequences.
If you are stupid enough to make loans to people who can't pay, you don't have the right to collect it from everyone else. Period! Missed that little part didn't ya?
The debts in this latest scandal are hospital bills - people (especially in emergencies) don't choose to end up in the hospital. They end up there, and then apparently at least in Minnesota, the debt vultures come looking for some flesh...
With a little sensible reform, we ought to be able to differentiate between financial obligatiions which are not incurred at the voluntary behest of the debtor (hospital bills being the prime example) and the vast majority of non-mortgage debt which has been run up by a mostly-young, very-impressionable group of people -- caught up in our consumerist society because it's all they've ever known.
The medical-bill debt problem itself can be traced to a change in the marketing of health insurance about 25 years ago, when new entrants in the field de-emphasized the "major medical" coverage that protected mature employees in the event of catastrophic illness, in favor of "no hassle" plans aimed at the twerps at the bottom of the heap who never plan more than a week ahead. No claim forms to fill out on your own time and a small or nonexistant deductible for accident or pregnancy, but twenty years down the road, when you have serious problems, you'll be in for a nasty suprise.
That "left-handed competition" eventually made traditional Blue Cross / Blue Shield harder to sustain; the problem began in the small-shop heartland of Ohio and Michigan, and spread outward from there. But it was hatched by the schlockmeisters of Madison Avenue, not Wall Street.
Sure. It was buried in the fine print of their corporate charter. Only rich, white, male republicans could own their stock.
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And the real problem in this nation is that there are millions of simplistic people who would swallow that distortion whole ... because it's the easy way out.
When the bill comes due, you'll gust grin like the Robespierre-wannabe you are, and point your finger somewhere else.
The debts in this latest scandal are hospital bills - people (especially in emergencies) don't choose to end up in the hospital. They end up there, and then apparently at least in Minnesota, the debt vultures come looking for some flesh...
Yep. But god bless the "compassionat conservatives" here who act like they will never need major surgery or have to "rack up irresponsible debt" to keep a child or elderly parent alive.
Private enterprise is always better than govt., right?
Long term, yes. That's why reputation is important.
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