Health Insurance: A right, a privilege or a responsibility?
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Health Insurance: A right, a privilege or a responsibility?
This question was posed during the debates. Both candidates kind of did some rhetorical banter about tax credits and crap. I don't even know what either candidate stands for there, and really, don't care!
I pose to my fellow Monks, the same question. Is health insurance, a right, a privilege or a responsibility?
It's my opinion, that health insurance is an absolute right to those who cannot provide for themselves. This means, that if you're under the age of 18, even if your parents are employed, it is the country's responsibility to provide health insurance for you. As well, if you're incapacitated, or have some other type of illness where you cannot provide for yourself, again it's the governments responsibility to provide health insurance for you, entirely free. Pass out a card, just like they do food stamps.
If you're an adult, which would be 18 in this case (not 21!), then you should be able to provide for yourself. This means, that it's your responsibility to get your own health insurance. Perhaps your parents insurance will cover you, as some do until your 23, 24, 25, or perhaps you need to go out and get a job, so you can afford to have private health insurance. Either way, you're a grown adult, and you're able to provide for yourself, so therefore you should cover yourself or pay the consequences.
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I believe that we should have universal health care for EVERYONE.
My Mom has two insurances, (Medicare, and Bluecross from my Dad's Railroad retirement benefits) and still has to pay some on her medicals bills. That is just not right.
We can have universal healthcare and all we have to do is raise taxes on people making over $250,000 a year. They are not paying their fair share of of taxes anyway.
England does it, France does it, Canada does, it, no exuses. We can do it.
To hear people like Rush Limbaugh say that healthcare is a privilege and not a right makes me want to puke.
Did anyone watch sicko by the way?
Here is one of the things from the movie.
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An Oregon guy accidentally severs off the tips of two fingers in a machinery accident at home. His health insurance company gave him a choice - we'll re-attach your middle finger for sixty thousand dollars, or your ring finger for twelve thousand dollars. But your insurance only partially covers one re-attachment. He chooses to save the ring finger....
I mean seriously WTF?
Can you imagine being in that situation and being told you must choose which finger you want re-attached. Bull shit.
We must have Universal Healthcare.
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Dak, I would've never expected for you to take the side that you did. It's your opinion though, so I won't argue with that. There's a few things I want to discuss though ...
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We can have universal healthcare and all we have to do is raise taxes on people making over $250,000 a year. They are not paying their fair share of of taxes anyway.
People making over $178,000 a year are already taxed 33%. If you make like $330,000 you're taxed 35%. This is double what the majority of the population pays in taxation. How is that fair to them? You tax them too much, and you're going to find them living in places like Andorra and operating through holding companies.
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Did anyone watch sicko by the way?
I watched it, and there were some awful things shown in it. But, it was Michael Moore, and that's what his argument was for. It was a great movie though because it opened people's eyes.
Dak, I would've never expected for you to take the side that you did. It's your opinion though, so I won't argue with that. There's a few things I want to discuss though ...
People making over $178,000 a year are already taxed 33%. If you make like $330,000 you're taxed 35%. This is double what the majority of the population pays in taxation. How is that fair to them? You tax them too much, and you're going to find them living in places like Andorra and operating through holding companies.
I watched it, and there were some awful things shown in it. But, it was Michael Moore, and that's what his argument was for. It was a great movie though because it opened people's eyes.
What is the tax percentage for someone making say $30,000 a year?
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bah. I'm a little off with my numbers -- here's the official chart. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
People making below $14,999 I think are taxed at 8%.
I wouldn't mind paying more taxes for Universal Healthcare.
The U.S. has very low taxes compared to most other industrialized countries.
Although if we would just gtfo of Iraq and quit wasting so much money on other crap, we would have enough money to cover it anyway.
Defecit spending is stupid.
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Not really that low, especially on the corporate side (which includes SBOs).
Why don't we just rid ourselves of income tax and let the people spend their money where they want?
That is the idea Ron Paul supports. But to do that we would have to shut down nearly all foreign military bases, downsize the miltary, and severely cut national spending to pay back the national debt.
I agree with Ron Paul on most of that, but I also think we have to have Universal healthcare. That is a basic human right just as eating is in my opinion.
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No more sickness, no more pain, no more parting over there;
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I never got America's stance on taxes. You all see tax as such an awful thing. I think more of American's need to read Das Kapital, and think outside capitalism a bit. It's moronic.
Money spent on Universal Healthcare is far better than what American taxes go to.
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