Universal Health Care Doesn’t Sound Too Bad
April 30, 2009 by Scott Wharton
Filed under Men's Health
Right about now universal health care doesn’t sound that bad for most people in the United States. With unemployment at it’s highest the amount of families and individuals currently without health insurance has got to be at it’s highest as well.
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Employers that let their employees go often offer a COBRA plan, which in most cases has a much higher premium than they were already paying out of pocket to have anyway. It’s like a slap in the face. “We have to let you go, but if you still want the health plan you’ll have to pay…“. When I left my job the HR showed me the cobra plan and I would have to pay almost $1000 a month to keep the health plan that was already pretty crappy in the first place.
We’ve yet to hear anything solid about a universal health care plan similar to Canada’s, but for a lot of people it doesn’t sound like such a bad thing. People will scream socialism and government control when and if it happens. If we didn’t have billions and billions being budgeted for bail-outs we could probably set something like this up that could benefit Americans and the health providers.
Currently there is medic-aid for families that don’t make enough money to pay out of pocket for health insurance. Sadly this is being taken advantage of by so many people out to get a free ride. I don’t really want to point fingers but there are immigrants, both legal and illegal in the United States that are living well, but not paying taxes. These same people drive around in brand new cars paid for in cash. They fabricate pay stubs or claim they are unemployed and receive welfare and medicaid while putting NOTHING back in the to system by paying taxes. We have enough of our own doing this; add immigrants drawing free money and I can guarantee that it has contributed to the state of the current economy. That and the outrageous gas price in the past two years.
All I’m saying is before you complain about socialism and such non-sense when the idea of a universal healthcare system is presented, think about how many Americans currently are living without health insurance and riding on hopes that they don’t get sick or injured. It seems to work for other countries, why can’t it was for the good U.S. of A.?
I have been told that universal health care get picky about giving people good health care after the age of 50. What I was told was that once you turn 50 and say if you had cancer, they would delay treatment for 6 months or so because after 50 you are least likely to be helpful to the work force, etc. If anyone has any info on this it would be very welcome.