05-04-2017, 06:32 PM
(05-04-2017, 05:51 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Increase the number of people with access to health care by burdening everyone else who couldn't afford it. That's why so many young healthy people opted out of the ACA and the ACA promptly went into financial troubles. Young people are generally poor and healthy. Neither of those equate to wanting to pay the burden for other people.
I don't care who thought up the scheme. I don't care about liberals/conservatives and who put it into play. It's forcing a majority of people to purchase something they didn't want/didn't need/had already at a more affordable price in order to help a minority of people.
Except when a parent can't afford the copay anymore after decades of being able to because their employer could no longer afford the same coverage as it had in the past.
Or when multiple friends lose hours on their jobs so they are under the healthcare requirement threshold, and on top of that then have to pay money into a program they neither want nor need.
I know you live in a world where you think the rich people are paying for poor people, but it's the middle/lower middle class who end up with the burden. People shouldn't be burdened with paying for other people's decisions. It's not their fault that someone else decided to live off a diet of Pepsi and candy and got diabetes. It's not their fault that they were responsible and used contraceptives while other people pump out two or three children they can't afford.
That's how we got to a point where my generation is going to get screwed by having to pay into a Social Security system that they will never see the benefits for.
I will assume you're young and healthy. Who will pay for your health care when you're old and sick? You won't. You won't be able to afford cash payments. So you will do without healthcare unless you have healthcare insurance. So if you wait to get healthcare insurance until you are old and sick you will pay less into the insurance pool than what you receive (the Grasshopper) and other people will be burdened by your choices (the Ants).
Let me give me you an example. Let's say both you and you're wife work good jobs until you both retire at age 67. Since you will no longer have an employer, you no longer have employer sponsored health insurance. You have Medicare. Let's say you suffer from Alzheimer's and need skilled nursing home care. Today that costs $5000-$8000 per month for basic, no frills nursing homes in BFE southern Ohio. Medicare is not going to cover half of that. How will your wife cover your other medical costs, nursing home care, and her own cost of living? What if your wife passes away, who will take care of you and you're costs then?
