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Our Healthcare System
1. 46 million people insured (15% of our population)
2. Average cost per person-$7,300 (One of the highest costs in the world)
3. We pay an average of about 2.5 times the amount of developed European nations
4. Only 22% of Americans like our current healthcare system
3.Routinely labels your condition as pre-existing, in order to make an extra dollar or two. A healthcare system that incessantly will avoid covering routine checkups in order to satiate their avarice selves.
People with healthcare are not necessarily safe either, as health insurance companies are extremely avarice, and will resort to using just about anything as an pretext for not being able to cover medical costs. While Republicans incessantly use the term "death panels", and scare tactics to rebuff and reject health care reform, they are being oblivious to the real "death panels"- health insurance companies. In a health insurance company's world domestic violence, pregnancy, and diabetes fits the criteria of a pre-existing condition. The main incentive as to why the health insurance companies are doing such absurdities is irrefutably due to monetary reasons. For a few extra dollars in an executive's pocket, the lives and integrity of a nation has been sacrificed.
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1. And some of those people...by the way 15% is a small percentage...are uninsured by choice. There is a segment that makes as much as 50K a year and some that make 75K...not poverty level...that just don't buy insurance. Singly males are a large segment that don't have insurance not because they can't afford it but because they "aren't sick" and choose other ways to spend money.
2. and 3. We will pay more than other countries under other plans. Notice our high population compared to many of those countries? Increase population means increase cost.
4. And judging by the negative feedback Obama received while his party has the majority in both houses and can push his plans....they scrapped his plan and are starting over. What do you think that means?
46,000,000 people is not a miniscule number. How can we possibly call ourself "the greatest country on earth" when 46 million people are afraid to get sick because they cannot pay the full costs of healthcare. Your second point was highly illogical. Do you honestly believe that people who can afford health insurance, don't buy it, because they don't get sick? What happens if they contract a virus, get hit by a car, get bitten by a dog, get an incidental laceration on their arm huh? You're body is not immune to that, and if that happens do you think the 50ks a year can pay the full costs? I didn't think so. For your second point, do you really believe that we pay such costs because we have "a lot of people". For your last point, a lot of congressmen do not support it because of self interests. A lot of congressmen are in league with health insurance companies, so they will obviously not pass a bill detrimental to avarice health insurance companies.They already receive the best healthcare for being government officials, so what makes you think they care a damn to what happens to the rest of the country?
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