I am an independent voter. I refuse to vote solely on party lines. Thats for sheeple. I vote both R and D in every election based on policies the candidates have that I support. One thing I will always vote in favor of is food, shelter, and medicine. Its the backbone of a 1st world country.
Would you prefer a country where everyone had access to health care,
yes, I would.
Foodstamps exist.
Access to food, shelter, and medicine should be at the foundation of a 1st world country.
Yes, people will abuse the system. You're free to post as many cases of abuse as you want. But its something IMO every American should have a right to have.
Would you prefer a country where everyone had access to health care, that would destroy the system and our job market. Look at how terrible people are treated in countries with health care covered for everyone, they pay more for it and have worse outcomes. They literally have boards to determine whether you get access to treatment or not, imagine a board or company saying they wouldn't give you insulin or an incision and drainage when you have an infection and needed it.
Taking 1 example and extrapolating it as an all means for all countries/systems. There are countries (Germany, as stated above) and the nordic states do a pretty good job. Canada does not.
If the United states was able to figure out a logical way for Medicare for all it would benefit our society. It would take years of a two party system going back and forth to get it right. One shouldnt get denied lifesaving cancer treatment because they work 9-5 in a factory and cant afford it.
Personal example of how i have seen the current system fail. Grew up straight middle class. 1 family vacation a year. Middle of the pack house in a decent neighborhood, etc, etc. Had a family member get pretty sick with cancer when I was a kid. Was in and out of the hospital for about a year and had 5-6 years of treatment. We had some form of BCBS insured through my father who worked as a shipping department manager at a factory. My mom taught 4th grade. We exceeded the threshold that insurance would pay pretty quickly. They took our family savings, checking, 401k/retirement. My parents lost everything they had saved in their early/mid 40s. Completely cleaned out all because someone needed lifesaving treatments and insurance wouldnt pay beyond a certain amount. I know. Boohoo. Poor me. But that shouldnt happen to Americans. The system isnt right and I've seen its failures with my own eyes.
There are a couple dirty communist liberal states who have aggressively expanded medicaide. They make it very easy for people under a certain income threshold to get on medicaide insurance and aggressively increased the amount of health centers that accept medicaide (Community Health Centers). The cost savings was significant and the programs had strong bipartisan support once the financials were laid out in front of them. If you provide basic health care you prevent significant health problems and therefore people stay out of the hospital. It was a huge savings for the states that implemented it. I had a document on the savings somewhere but I cant find it in my email. Ill keep looking.
Im gonna leave my thoughts at that. Ill steer clear of posting more because policits gets people very upset.
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