Originally Posted by Guest

How much has the cost of healthcare gone up? The cost of an operation is higher now...an office visit costs more. EVERY part of healthcare costs more now than when we started making insurance payments. People use an average of $1 million in healthcare costs in a lifetime. That's 80 years, 960 monthly payments, of over $1000.

You could buy a car with very low payments in the 1960s...you can't get a NEW car today for that same payment because cars cost more today. Same with health insurance...the cost of healthcare has skyrocketed, the premiums must too.

Obamacare, subsidizing 50 million poor people, IS causing YOUR premiums to go up even more. You're getting the normal price inflation PLUS picking up a $ multi-billion albatross around your neck. We decided to support them...now we're stuck with ever increasing costs.

Should we all provide healthcare for everyone with NO responsibility on their part? They can be obese and slovenly, participate in dangerous activities...and WE pay 100% of their healthcare? The POOR, living on foodstamps and subsidized housing...ISN'T paying a cent for healthcare...we are.

It comes down to cost...CAN society afford to cover everyone, many for free, when it costs over $1000 a month per person?