Health Insurance bad for you?
March 12, 2010 10 Comments
Today I heard IL Senator Dick Durbin state “70 people a day will die due to the lack of health insurance”, and reiterates that it is 70 a day that will die. So what verification does he have that they died due to lack of health insurance? Yet is 70 a huge number? If the rest that died every day that had good health care insurance it seems to me that according to Senator Durbin its better to not have insurance if only 70 a day die from lack of it. And since this health care bill wont kick in for another 4-5 years over 180,000 people will have died in that time span according to Durbins numbers. Is he trying to tell us no one will die if this bill is passed ? People die every day its fact of life im sorry i have had to deal with death many times in my life. Most of my family is deceased. And they still would have died no matter what.
Its like the lyrics from the song Dust in the Wind by Kansas ” nothing lasts forever but the Earth and Sky it slips away and all your money won’t another minute buy” It also seems to me as i have heard a protester saying that his college education should be a right he shouldn’t have to pay for it he should have a job guarenteed a house and free food. Well if you have a house and free food and utilities why on earth would you need the job for ? And why suddenly does health care become a right ? Then there will loads of people wanting rights to do this or that it opens a big box or worms.
Senator Durbin went on to say” and 1,040 more are denied coverage, charged a higher rate, or otherwise discriminated against because of a pre-existing condition.” I can tell you one thing the people who get denied the most for medication or services are people who have Medicare or Medicaid. My local hospital will not even accept a patient who has Medicaid anymore they have a big sign on the wall. They just don’t get it this is not what the people want right now they want Jobs ! The polls continue to go down and down on the amount of people who are for health care bill now. Congresses approval ratings have been in the basement for some time now. And Obama’s numbers have dropped like a rock since he took office just over a year ago. And he seems all to willing to throw fellow Democrats under the bus and his party under the bus just to pass this bill. That will become 16% of our yearly GDP its to big of a monster to rush through fix the small problems we have with the industry now.
I for one would like to see limits set on malpractice lawsuits. Make it so people can buy insurance from across state lines. 75% of people are happy with their insurance it seems simplier to me to try to fix the 25% than completely screw it up for everyone. Cut fraud and waste. Theres no reason a prescription for some medicine should cost over $100 bucks when insurance pays for it when it can be bought over the counter for about $30.00
I also wonder if the part that i read earlier is still in the bill now that if people do not pay for this universal health care insurance they will be fined and if they don’t pay the fine they will be imprisoned. Way i see it there would be quite a number of people who would flat out say fine me im not paying for the fine either. Guess Obama better get to building prisons cause if a mere 15% which i think would be low do not pay the fines would amount to almost 40 million people we do not have prison space for 40 million people or if just 10% didn’t that would be approx. 30 million people. I do not feel its a God given right or a right in this country. I admit something needs done but nothing this drastic.