Eisboch wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
America does not have a health care crisis.

America has a welfare crisis.

Eisboch

Spoken like a "true Republican have."
"I've got mine, screw the poor, eh?"



I'll give you a personal example of what I am talking about Harry.

I have a nephew who simply can't hold a job. It's not that he's not
capable of doing so.
He just can't tolerate working for anybody. He one of those people who,
after two weeks on a job, thinks he's smarter than anyone else in the
company. He has made his way through life doing all kinds of
"self-employed" type work .... flipping cars, building decks on houses, etc.
He's not lazy ... he just can't work for anyone but himself.

After he got married and had a couple of kids, he started to realize that he
should have some form of health insurance to cover his growing family. He
tried again getting a "real" job with benefits, but as before, it didn't
last. I got involved in a discussion with him and made the point that he
may have to change his arrogant attitude in the best interests of his
family. Sometimes you have to do things in life that you don't want to do
because you have responsibilites to others in addition to your own, was my
pitch.

Well, he tried again and again gave up and went back to his screwball way of
making a living.
No health insurance. Can't afford it.

Recently his young daughter developed a potentially serious medical problem.
She ended up at the Children's Hospital in Boston and received excellent
care. She now has surgery scheduled to correct the medical condition.

He laughs at me and my lectures now. All the costs are covered by someone
else.

Eisboch



For everyone like your nephew's kid, there are 10 more kids who don't
get any medical attention, or the wrong sort of medical attention or the
cheapest of "patches" medical attention, or medical attention long after
whatever problem there is has escalated into something a lot more serious.

Virtually every other modern western nation has proper medical
insurance/coverage as a basic right. We are about the only country which
does not.

Why not? Because the medical insurance companies/drug
companies/hospitals don't want it...it's socialism, it interferes with
profit, it forces economies, it changes things.

I just love the TV ads in which that crook who used to run HCA whines
about the possibility of "government bureaucrats" making health
decisions...as opposed to "insurance company bureaucrats" making health
decisions?