I wouldn't expect personal responsibility to make sense to you. RP doesn't have to provide insurance, it was still his choice to work there knowing there was no insurance.
Could have? You said he didn't have any insurance and pneumonia isn't a pre-existing condition. Just make up whatever you want...
Or insurance. I have insurance.
Medicare and medicaid are 2 of the socialist entitlement programs that are mostly responsible for our declining economic situation. How much care do you think your intrusive government is going to be able to provide in the future if it's broke due to all of your spending?
You do know that medicare and medicaid are mainly used by the elderly right? So sure, lets cut out both of those "socialist" ideas, so we can save some money and just let the old people die. What happens when mom and dad can't take care of themselves anymore? Are you going to take "personal responsibility" and give them 24 hr. care? Are you going to quit your job so you can take care of them on a full time basis. Nope. Not saying you don't love your parents, but people have to work. So what happens to mom and dad then? Oh well, let em die right because they can't take care of themselves anymore. They must not be important anymore since mom has to be in a wheel chair and piss in a bag. I've worked in the health care field for 20 years now, all in nursing homes, and I see what the majority of Americans do with their parents. When the going gets tough, they shove them into a home for someone else to take care of them, and do you know how much it costs a month at an average nursing home? Just for the room alone you are looking at a minimum of $3,500 a month for a room that they share with another person, and the only privacy they have is a curtain. And who do you think pays for that? Where I work, we have 170 residents, we only have 4 or 5 people who pay privately, about 5 people who's insurance pays, and the rest is the government. So sure, lets cut out these "Socialist" programs, how many people in the health care field would be without a job? How many old people would die because these asshole right wing nut jobs want to yell "Personal Responsibility", and "Charity". Bi@#h please...... charity doesn't work because the majority of us Americans are too greedy to help others out anymore. Sure it sounds nice and all, but how much do you donate to good causes every year? How much of your own money goes towards feeding someone elses kid? And you know what, the taxes the government takes out of all of our paychecks is basically for charity right? Isn't that what it does? Welfare and Food Stamps is a charity that's basically run by the government. So what's so wrong with letting the government get some of your money for that? Oh, it's because you want to have the say in how much you donate, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't donate on your own free will.
Call me crazy, but isn't auto insurance required? Nobody seems to care about when that became a requirement.
Requiring health care isn't a bad thing, if you actually think about it. If you opt to not have health insurance, and you get sick, what do you do? You sure as hell can't afford to go to the Dr. unless of course you make $100,000 a year. Lets say you break your leg because you slipped on some ice because the government decided to stop salting the roads because "personal responsibility" should take care of that. You go to the ER, how can you pay for that? You can't, unless again, you make an enormous amount of money. So you go to the ER, get an X-Ray, get a cast put on your leg, and the bill will be atleast $1,000. The required insurance that you have will pay the majority of that, leaving you with a smaller bill that is more manageable. Wouldn't hospitals make more money if more people had insurance? Yes, and no one can deny that. In theory, if hospitals made more money, they could grow, they could give bigger raises, hire more people, which in turn will eventually help the economy.
Putting more money in the hands and pockets of the American people, is what drives the economy upwards. When people have more money they spend more, when people spend more, it creates a demand, when there is a demand there has to be a business to supply that demand, there also has to be a business to supply the raw goods for those demands, and those raw goods have to go somewhere and that's to factories, which all of these companies need what....people....which means more people with jobs, with money, turns into the economy growing. Economics 101, go back to school, stop listening to Faux news, and you may learn something. If the government can help people by giving them food stamps, they have more money in their pocket to spend on other things.
