JustNtime
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2009
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Perhaps put the question to popular vote, should everyone be required to have health insurance or be fined for not having it?! Maybe the majority would agree - I think we should at least ask.
This bill does nothing to prevent folks w/o insurance from incurring bills for catastrophic cases and then either using bankruptcy (or death) to escape the full consequences. It just adds a fine to their already dire consequences. For the vast majority who take the risk w/o the consequences, it's just another hand in their pockets.
Even those with some coverage could be bankrupted (or dead) by your examples. SO no real change.
Let's call me skeptical that those not having a way to pay, those with minimal coverage, those with superior coverage, and those with deep pockets all receive the same quality of care now or in the future... So another consequence.
NOT having insurance is a gutsy call to say the least and my daughter has had to pay a hefty price for treatments she has received and paid out of pocket. Still she is unable to find what she considers affordable health care. An optimist might suggest this bill would give her that opportunity. A pessimist sees an added cost and continued risk with no guarantees... Call me optimistically-pessimistic, I think it could actually be worse than that!
This bill does nothing to prevent folks w/o insurance from incurring bills for catastrophic cases and then either using bankruptcy (or death) to escape the full consequences. It just adds a fine to their already dire consequences. For the vast majority who take the risk w/o the consequences, it's just another hand in their pockets.
Even those with some coverage could be bankrupted (or dead) by your examples. SO no real change.
Let's call me skeptical that those not having a way to pay, those with minimal coverage, those with superior coverage, and those with deep pockets all receive the same quality of care now or in the future... So another consequence.
NOT having insurance is a gutsy call to say the least and my daughter has had to pay a hefty price for treatments she has received and paid out of pocket. Still she is unable to find what she considers affordable health care. An optimist might suggest this bill would give her that opportunity. A pessimist sees an added cost and continued risk with no guarantees... Call me optimistically-pessimistic, I think it could actually be worse than that!