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Mercnbeth -> RE: The Wonderful World Of Government Healthcare (1/3/2008 10:56:12 AM)
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What about those people who are unemployed and do not qualify for public aid? Wait, under your concept there would be no public aid. So okay, what about those that are unemployed?
Not every person can work. I worked full time for 10 years then had to go part time and eventually lost my job because I could not work. I still cannot work and I do not qualify for any help. So the people like me should just suck it up or give up?
In Michigan alone the employment rate is awful.
Addressing the last part first, to paraphrase my favorite comic Sam Kinison and his reference to the starving Ethiopians - "MOVE! You live in a desert! It's been a desert for a long time! It will always be a desert. Instead of sending money to the refugees we should be sending moving vans!"
Meanwhile lets work the numbers. I'll use someone else's reported number that currently 40,000,000 Americans lack any health coverage. I'll use that. Another number to employ is the unemployment rate. As of 1/1/08 it's reported at 4.70%. (Verify here if you'd like: http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/biz/ratechart.asp ) Using the ENTIRE population of 300 Million overstates the number because not every citizen is of working age, but lets use it anyway. The result in 1.4 million "unemployed".
Making mandatory coverage a part of employment and all of a sudden 38.6 Million more people would be insured. More important to the economics of the issue. 38.6 Million more people would have insurance premiums paid, generating $46.3 Trillion in money going to health care without one penny coming from tax dollars. The potential of all that money going to health insurance companies must make a man like John Edwards salivate at the potential litigation settlements. However, at least a few extra dollars will go to actual health care.
In the process, the existing bureaucracy won't go away. However it will be better able to cast a wider net to support people such as yourself than it does now. Hospitals and emergency wards would not be the "clinic of the poor" that they have to be now.
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