It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
Yes, yes they would!
And, with a smile on their face the whole time! Now, there is an element of QC here which would need to be addressed but this is done far more easily than most imagine.
originally posted by: AboveBoard
a reply to: SlapMonkey
I hear you, but honestly everything from the business side is fixable with the ACA, but the real issue is that it is a political football and they are playing with our freaking lives no matter which side of the issue you are on.
The problem with cheap insurance is that it provides an illusion of safety until one actually gets very sick and then - WHAM - medical bankruptcy.
Most bankruptcies were due to extreme medical costs, including underinsured people, not just those without any coverage.
I don't want the bad old days to return. And I don't want the government making it impossible for me to care for my son.
originally posted by: MOMof3
Cancer, lots and lots die from not being able to go for early detection. But why do you care. The Inquisition party is in charge and you will get your purges.
originally posted by: allsee4eye
They should implement free market health care. Those who have the money to pay for it get health care. Those who don't need to get off their bums and contribute more to society to earn money to pay for healthcare. There is no need for anymore welfare as it is.
originally posted by: MOMof3
a reply to: riiver
And that is where we are at with our health care system, a moral issue. Is it a right or a privelege. Doctors and hospitals won't treat without payment. That system has failed too many and that is bad for the nation.
originally posted by: allsee4eye
They should implement free market health care. Those who have the money to pay for it get health care. Those who don't need to get off their bums and contribute more to society to earn money to pay for healthcare. There is no need for anymore welfare as it is.
originally posted by: alphabetaone
Does that include those disabled to the point that "getting off their bums and contributing" is nearly impossible? Cancer patients at stage 4? Black lung patients? Paraplegic? Mentally incapable?
Do you honestly think, given the choice these peole WOULDN'T rather be able?
Some of you people man....
originally posted by: SlapMonkey
The moral thing to do would be to call out for donations of time, money, labor, skill, etc., on behalf of the healthcare industry to aid the industry's treatment of those who cannot afford it. But, to expect that the federal government should forcefully (or with the threat of force) take that which I might willingly give, and then to advocate for that while lecturing about morality, seems pretty disingenuous.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
Before 2008 Americans must have been dying in droves with zero medical coverage... Man, I'm sure how we lived these past 200 plus years without medicaid and ACA....
originally posted by: MOMof3
POST REMOVED BY STAFF
originally posted by: jtma508
No. 'Back in the day' employers carried as much as 100% of health insurance for workers. Until very recently I never held a job where I didn't have at least 80% covered by employers.
originally posted by: MOMof3
a reply to: SlapMonkey
You have chosen your side.