Should People Be Allowed to Choose
From the Business and Media Institute:
Government statistics also show 45 percent of those without insurance will have insurance again within four months after job transitions.
Accounting for all those factors, one prominent study places the total for the long-term uninsured as low as 8.2 million – a very different reality than the media and national health care advocates claim.
I throw that out there just to incite…but my real point if more allowing the idea of health care in general.
Health Insurance is expensive…whether it be through a private provider, the workplace, or the bloated government. You’re either paying several hundred for your family out of your pocket to a private provider of your choice…or several hundred out of taxes to a provider that you can’t choose.
I currently have no health care. I’m okay with that. I choose to not have health care, along with many other millions in the United States.
But according to the same Census report, there are 8.3 million uninsured people who make between $50,000 and $74,999 per year and 8.74 million who make more than $75,000 a year. That’s roughly 17 million people who ought to be able to “afford” health insurance because they make substantially more than the median household income of $46,326.
If I choose to have health care, as I will in a few months when my benefits kick in, I will pay for them accordingly out of my paycheck…however, I see no benefit right now. If I need emergency services, I won’t be turned away, and there’s always clinics that are inexpensive for the flu, fevers, etc. If I get into a car accident, I have car insurance that I pay extra for to cover medical. If I have an emergency, I’m willing to pay for it out of my pocket. That’s my choice. Now explain to me why someone else’s taxes should pay for my health care…if I don’t want it…or better yet, how my taxes will pay for a government run bureaucracy (one with which I’ll have limited recourse if they screw up), when I don’t want to pay for such an overfed system.
There are very few government programs I trust. The military is one. The department of education is not…the welfare system is not…the freaking postal service is not.
So, right now, because of my choices, I’m a pawn to be used by congressmen and women who want to warp statistics to make their programs. Somewhere a drug company loves the idea of a big fat non-compete no bid contract that they’ll be able to make with the fat cat medical system, run and paid for by the government… because nothing drives up prices… like competition? Imagine medical companies having to lobby congress just to get their contracts. Why, who needs the consumer to choose, when all you have to do is donate to a political machine to get you’re drugs out there.
Hey, we might not have real competition in the community to drives innovativeness or new drugs and treatments. We might have our health care decided by politicians and not doctors. But at least it will be cheap.
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