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Originally Posted by MadBlaster
No. Private insurance is simply pooling of risk by a group that has a common interest to minimize it. You don't understand competitive market theory, obviously. No one is forcing you to buy it and bump up those evil profit margins. Health insurance could be as competitive as auto insurance, if allowed. But I guess you would rather sponge. Get your low income exemption. Have others foot the bill for your gluttony and ignoramus lifestyle. Eating your food stamp twinkies and cupcakes all day. Then when your day of diabetes approaches, you expect the other guy to pay for it. Mandating that I buy into the government program or go to jail. How truly pathetic.
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so,
the entire population?
also none of
this applies to me, so i cite "personal attack" as per forum rules. take your trolling away from this thread.
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Originally Posted by _OD_
Seriously?
I'm trying not to get too drawn it but this is quite an outrageous attack on some peoples beliefs, and the systems employed by some nations.
Everyone in the UK pays National Insurance. This is meant to provide you with a state pension, welfare if you lose your job (unless out of choice and providing you are looking for work) and access to healthcare when you need it and not if you can afford it.
What you are "espousing" is letting the poorer sections of society die because they can not afford health insurance. True you do not have to buy it but if you don't how are you meant to afford health care if you get cancer, or a life threatening disease? This is not an issue in the UK. If you want to get private health care that is up to you but EVERYONE has access to the National Health Service. How is this a bad thing?
This world is not just for the rich...I believe your own constitution states all men are created equal...just seems from your posts that some are more equal than others.
Plus...as one of the above posts said...what's this got to do with gloabl warming?
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or even letting those who haven't got the right health insurance get shoddy treatment. i recall someone from ubi and the situation with his 18 year old daughter. instead of expensive curative treatment the doctors were just going to go for a hysterectomy, on an 18 year old girl, simply because of them not having the "right" cover. worked every day of his adult life, had what he thought was a good policy only to discover the company found a loophole to avoid paying out.
private healthcare, when it's actually the level of care and not queue-jumping or comfort that you pay for, is dangerous on a societal level. calling national healthcare "wealth distribution" is disingenuous to say the least. i always wonder if people would change their tune should they find themselves bust out of luck, poverty-stricken and reliant on this "wealth distribution."