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Overreach: Obamacare vs. the Constitution
Topic Started: Feb 19 2012, 12:59 AM (465 Views)
tomdrobin
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Feb 19 2012, 01:04 AM
If Obamacare is overreaching, a single-payer system would be even more overreaching.
If overreaching means universal coverage whereby all have access to affordable health coverage. If overreaching means no one dies prematurely from lack of health coverage, or is financially ruined by an illness. Then sign me up for some of that overreaching. :tongue:
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Those who have good coverage have no compassion for those who don't. They don't care. But that all can change in a flash when your trusty company sez, no more insurance for you. You want it, pay for it? It happens. It happened to me.
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Feb 19 2012, 03:41 AM
Those who have good coverage have no compassion for those who don't. They don't care. But that all can change in a flash when your trusty company sez, no more insurance for you. You want it, pay for it? It happens. It happened to me.
"They don't care."

And you know that how?

Explain.
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Feb 19 2012, 03:41 AM
Those who have good coverage have no compassion for those who don't. They don't care. But that all can change in a flash when your trusty company sez, no more insurance for you. You want it, pay for it? It happens. It happened to me.
When I had good coverage through my employer I sure felt we didn't need any of this socialized medicine. I can remember being oppossed to it when it was proposed during the Clinton era. Then my employer started hitting us with hefty monthly fees and copays and deductibles for coverage. I started realizing that it wasn't free, and that many were finding health care unaffordable while others were relatively immune. Listening to the Canadians here I questioned what they were telling me, but eventually it began to sink in. We in this country were on an unsustainable path of escalating health care costs. And, if we didn't do something about it eventually no one would be able to afford coverage, not even those Fortune 500 companies for their employees. The final nail was when after retiring my employer terminated health care coverage for salaried retirees. To be fair they did only for medicare eligible retirees, gave us $300 a month to cushion the blow. I soon found out how far that $300 went when paying for medicare, medigap, prescription drug coverage and dental etc. I thought I'm actually lucky, what about those that aren't old enough for medicare, and I've known a few who had to deal with disaster of a major illness and no health care coverage. What it all come down to is perspective. Perspective can change your whole point of view.
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