Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Whipper? don?t forget the fact that many healthy single people, like myself, are choosing NOT to get healthcare because the costs are too high.
I have not been to the Doctor or hospital in over 15 years so I decided to gamble that I will continue to be healthy rather than throw about money week after week just incase I do get sick.
This creates a problem because it is the healthy people who do not use their insurance that subsidize the sick people that over use their insurance.
Seriously, John, why can't you see that you are at risk for medical problems, and are taking a terrible gamble you should not have to, that universal healthcare is a better policy?
I don't want to see you and others suffer and there's no need for you to.
But the ideology is thick in this one, as I see the 'sick' are not using, but are 'over using' their insurance. No, they're not. They're sick and they should use it a lot.
You would think that the fact that every other advanced society has it, and many very effectively like Germany, would make an impression, get past your ideology.
Not going to a doctor for 15 years because it's too expensive is *a bad system*. Period. My gosh, you can take the horse to medicine, but you can't make it take it.