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jimmyx
solomons path
Aazadan
solomons path
BS.
The healthcare was great in this country. People from all over the world come to America to receive care because of the skill of our specialists , the quality of our hospitals, and the cutting edge level of our treatments.
BS. I have been unable to walk or stand for more than 5 minutes for the past 6 months due to a back injury that isn't healing. I have no insurance, I cannot afford insurance, my job which I work at for more than 40 hours a week doesn't pay enough, as it is I'm lucky I can afford rent. I have no option for medical treatment unless it's an emergency (and if it is I have to show up without an ID so they can't find and bill me 3 years salary for a 5 minute visit). Care in this country sucks.
Your issue doesn't seem to be with the care you receive . . . it seems to be with the fact that you feel you shouldn't have to pay for it. Moreover, you're upset that your job doesn't pay you enough.
The "care" is just fine . . . you just can't afford it and don't want to have to pay for the doctors, nurses, and use of their equipment. So much so, you pretty much admit to fraud by claiming you go to the ER without any I.D., so they can't track you down later to recoup for the efforts of their labor.
wow!!...do you long for Nazi death camps, would that be classified as the good old days??....not enough money, "F" your health....
jimmyx
solomons path
Aazadan
solomons path
BS.
The healthcare was great in this country. People from all over the world come to America to receive care because of the skill of our specialists , the quality of our hospitals, and the cutting edge level of our treatments.
BS. I have been unable to walk or stand for more than 5 minutes for the past 6 months due to a back injury that isn't healing. I have no insurance, I cannot afford insurance, my job which I work at for more than 40 hours a week doesn't pay enough, as it is I'm lucky I can afford rent. I have no option for medical treatment unless it's an emergency (and if it is I have to show up without an ID so they can't find and bill me 3 years salary for a 5 minute visit). Care in this country sucks.
Your issue doesn't seem to be with the care you receive . . . it seems to be with the fact that you feel you shouldn't have to pay for it. Moreover, you're upset that your job doesn't pay you enough.
The "care" is just fine . . . you just can't afford it and don't want to have to pay for the doctors, nurses, and use of their equipment. So much so, you pretty much admit to fraud by claiming you go to the ER without any I.D., so they can't track you down later to recoup for the efforts of their labor.
wow!!...do you long for Nazi death camps, would that be classified as the good old days??....not enough money, "F" your health....
solomons path
So, the care and his health are not the issue . . . it's the fact that he doesn't want to have to pay, complicated by the fact that he didn't have the foresight, either through obtaining coverage, finding a different employer (for coverage or greater income), or saving for the possibility of needed care. Furthermore, when he skips out on the bill, it raises the premiums of those of us who demonstrate some level of personal responsibility.
Now those same people are falling hook/line/sinker for the promise of affordable healthcare coverage from the same industry that they say "sucks" and is the reason they can't take care of themselves . . . yet again, causing those of us who demonstrate personal responsibility and foresight to burden the rising costs.
deadlyhope
reply to post by openminded2011
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Who is being stubborn about a concept ( obama-care ) that will gut the nation anyways? Who is not willing to budge on their spending habits which is driving our nations credit up?
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Q33323
The Tea Party is our country's last gasp (and grasp) for fiscal responsibility.
sealing
Yes, the TP is deliberately holding the USA,it's citizens
it's gov workers, and it's credit rating hostage.
If the 120+ replies say anything else, it's a some dreamed up excuse.
Why do we take exception to the debt ceiling since 2010 ?
We've had it for all the other Presidents and Congress.
It was non issue until Obama.
What's different now?
I wonder....
openminded2011
Here is my hypothesis:
Lets say that there is a group of people, a cabal of billionares and millionaires.
They tried to get Romney elected to push their agenda and failed. They realize that because of changing demographics and political climate, and the bad economy, it is doubtful they will get a real hold on power again for the forseable future. Since they are the 1 percent, and own almost all the wealth in the country, an empowered populace might eventually turn its sights on them and their wealth and begin to tax them on terms more equatable to the people as a whole, instead of favoring a small percentage of oligarchs.
So they decide if they cannot rule over the country by political means, more strident action is needed. By instructing their bought and paid for politicians...
...[T]hey trigger a default on the debt which crashes the economy.
What effect will it have? Yes it would throw the country into chaos, people will lose life savings...
...most of corporate America would go off the proverbial cliff, the dollar is likely to crash, and world financial markets will be thrown into complete chaos.
Our unemployment would skyrocket even worse than it is now, with almost NO hope of improvement, because the currency is crashed. People who were starting to feel politically empowered now just focus shelter food and water. Yes there will be rioting and angry mobs but they will be short lived because people will be too obscessed with just survival. How many paychecks is the average person away from disaster? You get the picture. We are probably looking at a severe economic depression, worse than the Great depression, that will be global in scope.
But wait. These people are OBSCENELY rich. If you have 70 billion dollars and lose 50 percent of your assets, you still have 35 billion dollars. And your enemies, the 99 percent, will be completely destroyed financially. You can now pool resources, take your still formidable wealth, and control the ENTIRE country, which is now pretty much in ruins. Who will oppose you? The infrastructure is devastated, if not outright destroyed. The government is in effect disintegrated. The control the financial elites have now will be magnified a thousand times.
Our chief economic competitor, China, will be thrown into a state of complete chaos by the default and the inability to pay back the loans, now vast, incurred by the US.
I hope I am wrong about this. The coming days will tell the tale