"JohnH" wrote in message
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On 28 Sep 2004 15:51:32 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
Indeed, Bush has done nothing significant to help the 43 million
Americans without access to health insurance, and most of these folks
do
not have access to decent health care, either. Another area where Bush
failed.
Hey, this is America, not Russia. Those lazy n'er-do-wells who don't
have
health insurance should just get a second, or third job, or as many as
it takes
to earn the money to pay for it. Or go without. Whoever promised these
people a
free ride?
(My wife and I have contemplated retirement. We're in our early to
mid-50's.
One of the spoilers is health insurance.
In our state, coverage for the two of us would approach $1400 a month,
and
continue to go up each year as we age. Easily done if either one of us
is
working- but what sort of retirement would it be with one spouse
working? How
many burger flippers can afford $1400 a month?)
While we're at it, we need to review our minimum wage laws. Why
shouldn't the
free market set salaries and wages? If I can find somebody desparate
enough to
work for $2.75 an hour, I should be able to pay that little, (and bill
their
time at $75).
Until we drive our expendable working class into the same kind of
poverty and
deprivation they experience in India, Thailand, etc, how are we ever
going to
sustain corporate profits and still compete with the products we import
from
overseas?
And just think, over three million a year are coming across our southern
border
just to increase the rolls of the uninsured.
So many distortions.........the vast majority of the '43 mil' uninsured
are unisured by choice, NOT because they cannot afford it.
$1400 a month premiums are a result of wanting a next to nothing
deductible, and everything under the sun paid for. My insurance costs me
$120 a month.
John H
On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!