Originally Posted by billethkid

another, for lack of a better term, faction within what ever number of uninsured is stated, there is a significant number who can afford health care insurance and at the stage of their life they find themselves current....CHOOSE.... to NOT invest in health care coverage.

We have a couple of small businesses in the family....12 to 35 employees. Recently the kids offered to create a group for insurance coverage. The proposal to the employees was the owners ("the kids") would pay 50% of the premium and the employee would pay the other 50%...a pretty good deal in today's environment.

What would you guess acceptance VS rejection? I was stunned....100% REJECTION. They said first of all they were in no way going to put that kind of money out of their pay check for health insurance. They further stated if the owners had that much money to throw around just give the amount of the premium to them in a pay increase.

100% said they had other priorities for their money and health care was not one. Over half of them are married and no, their spouses did not have insurance either!!!

I for one have no sympathy, apathy, concern or care about those uninsured that do not help themselves. And I am afraid that happens to be a very large percent of what ever the total uninsured is.

It is a fabricated political move....NOTHING MORE!!! Yes there are some very legitimate needy folks out there. Hopefully there are alternatives for them as this has been going on for years. It has just in recent years become a political football.

Doesn't one wonder why Hillary Clinton gave up on her push for insurance for everybody? She was obviously not as politically hardened as Obama.

I have been soured, I look for it to be killed in total.

btk