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I sometimes think it's in the interest of the whole population to do this.

Consider the income of all the Truck Stop or Fast Food employees and what kind of health coverage they may or may not have or be able to afford. I'd like to see them getting to the doctor if they need to rather than toughing it out and coming to work sick because they need to pay bills and as a result increasing the chances of spreading Flu like was saw this last Winter and seeing Truck Drivers become ill as a result.

I also kind of wonder if easy access to Mental Health Care could reduce the amount of bizarre encounters with disturbed people who for some reason are drawn to Truck Stops.

 

It is not that expensive to walk into a doctors office and just pay cash. I belong to a Direct Care outfit. http://www.yourchoicedirectcare.com

The cost is $139 a quarter for just myself. Prescriptions are heavily discounted along with lab work. It is very affordable. A family plan is not much more depending on which plan you get. Now all I need is my catastrophic plan back, the $79 a month one. Right now, the cheapest cat plan is still well over $1000 a month, and I do not qualify due to my age. I will rely on the VA for now.

Those mental patients at the truck stops, the cops like to drop them there.

 

Sirscrapntruckalot - To be continued......

 

We have had universal health care since 1966 in Canada. I guess we got it all wrong as well as these other countries that also have universal health care

• Australia
• Austria
• Bahrain
• Belgium
• Brunei
• Canada
• Cyprus
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hong Kong
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Kuwait
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• Singapore
• Solvenia
• South Korea
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom

 

But if you're a worker at a fast food joint or some other job that pays little to nothing, that $139 is precious. You don't have a choice but to tough it out. To a person that makes decent money, that's inexpensive. To the person bringing home $400 per week or less, that's a blow.

 

All of you are the smart ones.

 

Fuel taxes, along with FET on tires and new trucks, the HVUT, and at the state level fuel taxes (again) and vehicle registration fees, are what are called "user fees". They are SUPPOSED to go into the highway fund to pay for the roads we drive on. That's why I get pissed off every time some pedestrian or bicyclist group wants a piece of that pie...because they AREN'T contributing. Don't want to pay those user fees? Simple...don't use the roads! If you WANT to use the roads, figure out a way to contribute to the fund that pays for them.

SSI is a ponzi scheme by very definition. People paying in today are covering the benefits of people receiving benefits today. If any private individual or corporation attempted to operate a system like that, they'd be locked up...but somehow you're OK with the government doing the same? Real intelligent argument you've got there!

Sales tax is also a state/local issue, NOT a federal one. Again, if you don't want to pay it you don't have to. Buy what you need second-hand from private individuals. Many states do not charge sales tax on food.

And the unemployment number you quote is only counting people recently out of work who are actively looking for a job. Remain unemployed long enough and you stop being counted. Stop looking for work, and again you stop being counted. Look at the labor force and subtract from that the unemployment rate, and then you have the number of people actually working. Compare that number to the census population to see how few would have to support so many.

Back to SSI, though. You're saying they "only" pull out "a few measley dollars"...try 6.2% taken out of your check with an additional 1.45% taken for medicare. Then, your employer matches those with another 6.2% to SSI and 1.45% to medicare on your behalf (money that could otherwise be paid to you). Then, if you earn enough, an additional 0.9% gets paid to medicare! In other words, 15.3% of your earnings (a little more if you earn a lot) goes to pay for a system that is broke and has no money. How much more out of your earnings (or how much the benefits will need to be reduced) in order to make it solvent? Don't know the answer to that, but I don't expect to see a single penny of the money I've paid in by the time I'm old enough to retire. In order to provide universal health insurance AND be solvent, you're looking at needing AT LEAST an additional 20-25% of people's checks, and that'll STILL have restrictions on benefits or it'll go broke (like SSI & Medicare).

Educate yourself, because I fear you do not know what it is you are asking for...and as we've seen with EVERY attrocious government "entitlement" program, once it is in place it is #### near impossible to eliminate.

Again, I ask you: How much...what percentage...out of your paycheck are you willing to hand over to the government to decide how best to spend? At what point would it become not in your best interest to continue working, since the same benefits can be had with less effort? What does that do to us as a country when more and more people make that choice that working is no longer worth the effort, pushing the burden of supporting the system onto an ever smaller group of people (which in turn disincentivises THEM, causing THEM to also sit it out)? How long before NOBODY is working, NOTHING is being made, transported, or sold (because it isn't worth anybody's time to do so) and the government has to step in and FORCE people to do jobs they don't want in order to have an economy to pay for all of the "benefits" of society? That, my friend, is not freedom...and not a country I want any part of.

I'll work and pay my way, you work and pay yours. That's how this country became a superpower in only a short period of time...individuals had to produce in order to survive, and what you produced was yours to do with as you saw fit...which was incentive to produce more.

 

My point was, there is affordable health care out there. A doctor visit is $35, medications included in most cases, like a ZPAK. I have had docs just give me one, they have meds on site in many cases. I have done this more than a few times. $35 is not to much for treatment. See, most guys feel seeing a doctor should be free, or someone else should pay for it. Get the government out of medicine, and maybe we can go back to affordable health care and health insurance.

 

Nothing is free. What people want is for everybody to chip for a universal program. Besides, when was the government ever involved in medicine? Who's watching these insurers that are charging these premiums? I guarantee it ain't the government. In some instances, we need bigger government. Healthcare is one. Why pay $35? Switch to single payer, and everybody saves.

 

Educate myself? Hahahaha whatever dude.