MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Opt-in fire brigade

> Sounds like the current health care fiasco, no? Why carry insurance if you can go to
> the ER and get your care for free (they can't turn you away)... so young healthy
> people opt out... so relatively mostly sick/elderly in health plans... so premiums
> are through the roof... so young healthy people can't afford it... and the cycle
> continues spirals out of control.
>
> One possible fix is to allow hospitals to deny care if you can't pay... then
> everyone, by natural market forces, will sign up BEFORE they are sick, bringing
> healthy people into the pool, which will bring premiums down to affordable levels.
> That, or let the government take over every aspect of your life like a big nanny tit.
> That's Obama's theory... force you into health insurance to get the healthy young in
> the plans to balance all the old geezers in the plans, and to balance all the
> "freeloafers" who show up in ER's without coverage... the government doing what the
> market would do if the government just got the hell out of the way.

Yeah right on, my wife and I pay a minimal amount in tax every month towards the National Heatlth Service and for what?

Shit all I've had from them are 4 days in hospital with a broken leg and ankle and follow up therapy. A broken collar bone x-rayed and attended to, a broken arm pinned and a 2 day stay in hospital. Without going into detail other members of my immediate family only have ongoing care from a consultant who is world renowned in his field and use of one of the best MRI scanners in the country.

You must have seen the news, its like the third world over here we let people die all over the place because its too expensive to treat them. Thank goodness the media are totally trustworthy and would never just highlight the problems with the NHS rather than present abalanced view.

I wish we had your healthcare system we would have saved a fourtune! Your so lucky over there, get that idiot out of the Whitehouse before you end up like us!

There is no sin except stupidity.