However, 45 MILLION uninsured people is inexcusable imho.
The real number is no where near 45 million Americans , the 20 mill + Illegal aliens are not Amercans and cannot be counted , subtract the number of young people that choose not to have health care (young , cheap , stupid etc) and the number is drasticly lower
And I, for one, don't mind helping my neighbors out if they get sick or injured; and if that means part of my tax money goes toward that, then so be it.
I keep hearing libs make this same statement, If his is truely the case then do you give all your money to the uninsured or poor currently ? If so thats great but what makes you think you have the right to do the same with my money ? I personaly dont care how many unsinsured persons there are , Here in the US everyone is gaurenteed medical attention period.
I currently pay $900 monthly for full coverage insurance for a family of four, medical, dental, optical and perscription , its insurrance I shopped for from at least 20 different options, I did the leg work to choose a plan i liked , made the deal and pay my own way . Everyone in this counttry has the same options , its not rocket science.
We all hit the ground naked and broke and those of us that choose to make our own way and do well in life can buy the things we want , those that dont are rewarded for their laziness and lack of drive with a goverment check , but at no point should that be my problem .
If a person chooses to sit on their ass and collect goverment assistance while I am working 15 hours a day 7 days a week how in the hell are they entitled to a portion of my blood and sweat?
We currently reward the lazy here in the US with free housing and food on the backs of those that get up everyday and produce , keep this up and those of us that actualy pay are just going to give up and sit on our asses like the those "45 million", then lets see where we will be . I guess then we will add vat tax and carbon emmision tax and pretty much tax (and regulate) every other aspect of life like our friends across the pond.
It amazes me that we left a country because of the strict controls and heavy taxation , Every single person here or at least their ancestors settled here to get away from heavy handed goverment control, yet there are still folks that want the goverment involved in every aspect of our lives . It just amazes me .
While on the subject of tax payer provided welfare programs , why in the hell are welfare recipents not tested for drugs, alcohol and ciggarettes? I have a neighbor on welfare and medicade (or medicare not sure which) who receivers free housing, power and phone are payed , food stamps . All here medical needs are taken care of , since she has self induced cancer from 30 yrs of cigg smoking. We the taxpayers are shelling out an average of $6k per month to keep this woman taken care of yet she still smokes and drinks .
If your going to havve a welfare program that hands out the money of hard working people , would it really be that hard to require the recipeants to be drug , alcohol and smoke free? And why are all the cars in the project nicer than mine?
When I ride past the goverment housing near by everyone has a big screen tv visible thru the front window , yet we have a crappy old 19" am i the only person that sees a problem here? This socialized single payer health care is just like swabbing a fresh coat of paint on an old wood hulled boat that leaks like a sieve , it may look pretty but its not addressing the problem.