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Originally Posted by gnu
A very good point! My best friend of 38 years never had health insurance, he didn't want to spend his money on it and gambled that he wouldn't get sick. He was diagnosed with leukemia 10 years ago, passed away in April, and spent a fortune out of pocket before getting on Medicare. You bet he would have bought insurance after his diagnosis if he could!
He and his now divorced wife also scammed Medicaid out of fifteen thousand dollars for an operation for their son buy claiming that he had left her, yet he never left the family home. He accomplished what many people do to pay for health care without insurance. You wonder why many of us don't trust the government to run health care?
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Gnu, I'm sorry, but I do not get the point of this post at all. I'm confused. Your friend could afford private insurance, but gambled on his health, then went broke??? Again, what does this have to do with the millions of people that want health insurance but cannot afford it?
Now he has "scammed" Medicad for an operation for his son?
Wellllllll.... I'd say I'd trust the government more than your friend!!! OK, snide remark... taken back.
Again, my concerns are for the millions of hard working people, or people with pre-existing conditions that legitimately cannot afford or get decent health care. Sorry, but the example you gave here doesn't equate.
Rshoffer, I can't buy the "Medicare Part D Formulary is impossible to figure out" as a viable argument. Maybe some people should quite trying to figure out if Obama was born in American and sit down and figure this out with the same enthusiasm.
Also, why is the USPS, Fed-Ex and UPS a bad example??? It's creative competition! We need more of that in this country. Bring it back!!! It is what made this country great!
