I'll Probably be banned for this again....

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That's your problem then if you don't pay for your own health insurance. Not mine and the rest of the tax payers. There are ways of getting health coverage if your employer (you in this case I guess) doesn't offer it. It just costs more than what it would if your employer subsidized part of it (like mine and most everyone elses). Usually an employer kicks up about 1/2 to 2/3rds of what the policy premiums are and you pick up the rest. Some are more generoous, some aren't.

And to say we have the best health care system is not entirely true. But we do have some of the best treatment facilities in the world. Quite a few are right here in MN. But the healthcare system itself it flawed. What they are pushing through IS socialized health care. It's a redistribution of wealth. Those that make more HAVE to take care of those that don't (according to this new bill). It is not the way that it should be handled. I don't have all the answers myself and I'm sure most people on here don't. But we are smart enough to see what they have proposed to be very detrimental to the economy as a whole. They are taking from programs that are struggling and giving that money, along with other new tax money, to something that will just create more strain on the governments budgets.

32 million people will get insurance, but at what cost to the rest of society? The hospitals are already overrun with people going to them for every little sniffle. Now give them free health care and they WILL use it to it fullest. Not what it should be intended for as something to just help them throuogh a hard time. It would be great if this was a perfect society of people that realized that they should not take advantage of things that are offered, but use them for what they are intended for. But there are alot of people that feel that if something is available, they better use everything they can out of it in fear of there not being anything there when they need it. By doing that, they end up using up everything anyways and it runs out for honest people that are really in need.