Insurance Companies Just Accidentally Made The Case For Medicare For All

[moonshaz]

America’s Health Insurance Plans, the trade group for commercial health insurance companies, published an infographic this month breaking down how the industry spends every dollar it receives in premiums

Comments

[stainedfeathers]

Your opinion is pretty terrible. Healthcare should be viewed by everyone as a right, not a commodity. Under your view of "emergency medical care maybe a human right" then that means my younger brother, who died of skin cancer 3 years ago at age 23 due to not having health care/insurance because we couldn't fucking afford it, would still be dead, dead, dead. Skin cancer or really ANY cancer is not considered emergency medical care so anyone with ANY type of cancer would die. Fuck them, it isn't an "emergency" and therefore not a human right to be cared for by your "maybe" standard. The kid that got drunk and into a car accident? Emergency, so totally a human right. The kid with cancer? Eh, fuck him.

Don't toe the line of saying "well maaaaaybe this really bloody grievous situation like 'emergency' might be covered". That's just pussyfooting to make you feel better about your opinions when people who get into really ugly accidents die and have no recourse*. Either It's a right for EVERYBODY, from the diabetic who needs medicine to live but can't afford it and the cancer patient to the young fool who got drunk and wrecked his car and the unlucky person he hit OR it's a right for nobody for any reason. Don't pussy foot around.

*Emergency being a right is further a stupid argument because people who couldn't afford healthcare wait until a situation becomes an emergency and go to an emergency room where the emergency room is required to treat them. This causes the taxpayers to bear the brunt of the unpaid bills because the person can't afford the high medical bills and never pays them which also wrecks that persons financial lives to boot but if it had been treated BEFORE becoming an "emergency" then it would have been a far cheaper option both to the patient and the taxpayers. (Easy way to think of it is it's like sex. Condoms are cheap, babies are expensive. Preventative health care is cheap, emergency care is expensive. Preventative care and condoms aren't 100% guarantees but they have a good fucking success rate of keeping your ass out of the hospital.) This is a major part of WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE NOW and what the ACA was made with the intent to try and relieve and why it's important that it should be a right for everybody.

[pairatime]

I'm fine with the government trying to lower the cost of healthcare with regulations and other measures but I'm not fine with the government paying for everyone's health care. You clearly see things a different way. I'm okay with that.