I was a little surprised by a few numbers like
40+ percent of all medical bill payed for were paid for by medicare and medicade.
40+ percent of all people who have insurance do so througth their employer
only a little over 10% of the american population is with out insurance
so if 40+ percent is paid for by medicare and medicade isnt the gov funding almost half of the medical bills in the country anyway?
Dude if you dont have insurance and have to go the the emergency room for something as little as a cough and as much as a catastrophic accident, and you cant pay for it, MY A## has to fork over the bill for you as well as the rest of us that are insured. So yah, maybe you do need to pay a fine or be more responsible as a citizen. Pretty sick of my rates trippling every half a decade.
also if 10+% of people dont have insurance now and are going to get it how do you figure I am going to have to wait in some huge line at the Dr. office? Its not like the patient load is going to increase by 20X. Maybe now, just maybe they wont be using the Emergency room as their primary care physician and I dont have to wait 6-8 hrs if I am really in trouble.
Im not saying its the best bill or the worst, but I agree with the previous statement that 99% of people talking sh## dont even know whats in teh bill and are just listening and worse yet repeating the hype they have been spoon fed.
Also I think that the increase in production in the economy was a big point with less people taking less time off work because they didnt wait until their health problems spun out of control due to not being insured. Crap do you realize how much Facebook and the classic Windows Solitare costs the country's economy each year in lost production and productivity
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