Healthcare Reform Is Deemed Income Redistribution
I guess the criticism of healthcare reform as income redistribution was inevitable. I'm sure the same thing was said about Social Security, Medicare, and every other social safety net program. Charity is wealth redistribution too. Volunteering, to the extent that it helps someone is also wealth redistribution. I guess helping people live longer, healthier lives through insurance subsidies to the poor and middle class is not something we should strive for.
If you have a crappy job and your employer doesn't provide health insurance and you have a low birth weight baby and get an astronomical bill, should the hospital keep your baby until you pay the bill, or refuse to provide care, and make the survival of the baby a problem.
There will be winners and losers, I'm sure. It took us a relatively long time to get to such an expensive system of health care and adding folks with preexisting conditions and providing reasonable basic levels of coverage and not getting younger healthier folks to participate in the program is the worst of all possible worlds for the insurance companies.
The system prior to the ACA didn't work very well. Costs were going up rapidly and people who needed coverage couldn't get coverage. We still need to work on controlling cost for health care or even those on Medicare are going to get pinched soon, socialism or not.
I wonder if Governor of Florida who is in favor of testing SNAP and TANF recipients for drug usage would extend that to members of the Florida Congressional Delegation. The Bozo from Cape Coral is still a long way from hitting bottom if he thinks donating his congressional salary to charity while in rehab will make him a better legislator. This is Florida and for some the rules are different, if they exist at all.
If you have a crappy job and your employer doesn't provide health insurance and you have a low birth weight baby and get an astronomical bill, should the hospital keep your baby until you pay the bill, or refuse to provide care, and make the survival of the baby a problem.
There will be winners and losers, I'm sure. It took us a relatively long time to get to such an expensive system of health care and adding folks with preexisting conditions and providing reasonable basic levels of coverage and not getting younger healthier folks to participate in the program is the worst of all possible worlds for the insurance companies.
The system prior to the ACA didn't work very well. Costs were going up rapidly and people who needed coverage couldn't get coverage. We still need to work on controlling cost for health care or even those on Medicare are going to get pinched soon, socialism or not.
I wonder if Governor of Florida who is in favor of testing SNAP and TANF recipients for drug usage would extend that to members of the Florida Congressional Delegation. The Bozo from Cape Coral is still a long way from hitting bottom if he thinks donating his congressional salary to charity while in rehab will make him a better legislator. This is Florida and for some the rules are different, if they exist at all.
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