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Originally Posted by Guest
Yes they DO like making stuff up...and twisting things too to mach what they want.
Yes it is...it's about how much healthcare actually costs and how much it needs to be subsidized. A $million in lifetime healthcare costs...costs over $1,000 a month for 80 years.
Healthcare is simply too expensive...EVERYONE in the healthcare industry MUST take a cut. Doctors...what EVERY parent wants their daughter to marry...make too much money. We can't afford their services. They MUST take a cut.
Almost half the population get their healthcare provided/subsidized by the government through medicare/medicaid. Half the population gets a government benefit...and healthcare is a big one. Only 1/3 the population HAS a job and 1/4 of those...only work part time.
His words SHOULD have been: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to steal"
We can't keep doing it...the number in "need" keeps rising and the cost keeps rising too...it's unsustainable...it's ANOTHER bubble that WILL come crashing down. By WANTING too much...by GETTING too much...we are destroying the system.
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Are you a picture of health or do you actually get healthcare? If so, then you are in one of the ones in "need" of which you speak. Yes, the number in need keeps rising. What would you have the government do about that? People get sick most of the time through no fault of their own. Sickness is a side-effect of life. Maybe just like the younger ones here dictate about not driving after such and such age, maybe people should just not live after such and such age. Or any age, for that matter, if they have the misfortune to get sick.
As for the doctors making too much money, I guess you think that they should go back to doing everything themselves...no hospitals, no nurses, primitive drugs where if you lived then you lived...otherwise, too bad, and took chickens in return for their services. Who do you think pays the nurses salaries, rents/leases/owns the office, buys the equipment, buys the supplies, pays for the janitorial services? And last, but not least, who pays their outrageous malpractice insurance premiums in order to protect them from the many frivolous lawsuits and the few that are legitimate? Remember, Medicare et. al, only pays what they approve which is far lower than what is billed. What do you think doctors would come out with if they billed what you think they should? Not even enough to pay the bills, much less have any take home pay, that's what. Have you also considered that they do not get 'overtime' pay, yet often have to work outlandish hours just to take care of those ever expensive needy people? Do they get to enjoy every evening at home with their families without work interruption?Did/do you take bottom dollar for whatever your job was? Please show me someone who willing works for less than the job normally pays just so they can avoid being considered greedy by others. I could go on, but if you fail to get the picture.........
We all paid into Medicare all our working lives and continue to pay premiums, so we most certainly are not getting something for nothing. We also have deductibles and co-pays, so once again, we are not getting our care for free. All insurance is 'subsidized' in some form. In private pay, it is by you.