Another reason entitlements need to go bye-bye

[Asher]

Originally Posted by Cyrano [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Healthcare reform affects too many people's lives in the business sector to expect them to shut up when they're seeing their livelihood change in the course of a few months. You act as if the insurance companies have the government in their pocket but it's one of the few industries where they are only allowed to make a certain percentage of profit per entity. Think about that, if you owned a car part store and the government said you could only make 4% profit over your total operational cost it would be infuriating.

I realize you don't feel this way but I don't feel people should be profiting off of other peoples illnesses. Everyone needs or will need healthcare at some point in their life and everyone should have healthcare. I realize it will probably never happen in the US but healthcare should be nationalized.

Allowing people to destroy their bodies, not carry insurance and let problems fester until they are eligible for the Medicare gravy train isn't good either. Insurance should be manditory for everyone to make it work so problems can be prevented and not have the burden passed on to medicare.

The only way it shouldn't be manditory is if we as a society decide it is acceptible to let people die if they cannot afford the costs of the healthcare they need. You don't carry insurance and you get shot why the hell should I have to pay for you to get healed when you should have had it in the first place. You rolled the dice and lost.

Asher