But health care is something that everyone should be given. We don't need to be giving people a working wage for life or free ice cream, or anything like that, but we have a moral obligation to provide health care to all our people.
On that point we disagree. Catastrophic health care is affordable for virtually everyone except for those already on Medicaid.
You are completely isolated from the real world, aren't you? I personally know 3 or 4 people who could afford catastrophic health care, and literally hundreds (everyone else I know) who can't. 1-5 mil is what we're talking here. I'm very well off, but even with insurance (which typically pays 50-80%) I probably couldn't pay my share to fight cancer.
I just purchased some for my aunt. $41/mo with a $5K deductible and 20% share over $20K. Who promised that health care would be free and not impact your life? If you have a choice between getting better and bankruptcy, well, that's what the government is for.
Higher education should be at least 5 times as expensive as it is now. And there should be no grants or loans available. That way, only the rich elite could go to college and then they would make more money. And then with more money at the top of the class bracket, the whole "trickle down" thing will finally kick in and all the visibily retarded poor people can continue to purchase all of the useless crap that the rich people produce all day long. I'm feeling particularly sarcastic this morning.
Just so you know, if you increase government assistance in the form of grants to higher education, it will be significantly more expensive in the future. Colleges and universities are notoriously poor at cost control, and the best way to keep tuition in check is to focus on loans rather than grants for assistance.
Just because you have insurance doesn't mean the insurance company will actually give you what you're paying for when you need it. And they also block people out of the system altogether because of pre-existing conditions.
That's what telephones and the US Mail is for . In the worst case scenario, you take them to court with a lawyer working for a percentage of the settlement. I just went through having to fight for parts of the coverage on a hospital stay, and all it takes is diligence. First, they can't do it if you're part of a group policy. Second, if you have a condition that you fear may be chronic, then you have to carry supplemental insurance throughout your life so you're never put in the position of not having coverage. Set the deductable high enough and it's cheap.
Government should be there to give a "hand up" to people in need not a "hand out".... All I see from Democrat proposals are a lot of "hand outs".... and you can't call it "cutting takes for 95% of americans", when roughly 40% of americans don't even pay taxes, yet they will get a check from Obama anyway..... Niiiiice.....Way to slap those people who pay thier taxes, pay thier mortgages and bills...right in the face....
