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Originally Posted by jms62
Those not having Health insurance are hurting the other guy which is you and I. Hospitals still are required to treat uninsured and cannot release those that are sickest unless there is a plan in place for their longer term care. This is breaking hospitals who are forced to raise their rates on all of us that do have health insurance which forces insurance companies to raise our rates. So those without insurance are hurting us more than themselves that is why I am for mandatory health insurance.
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Purchasing your own health insurance, removing you from the role of public support (everyone supporting your health care) to self-support, with you paying for your own health care, is exactly why the individual mandate was created and pushed by the Republican party when they created "Obamacare" in the 1990's.
And that's exactly what it does. So strange the Republicans have turned the facts around to get people
against self-responsibility (paying for your own health care) and removal of dependent but paying-capable people from support programs? They sure are good at messaging.
If the Republicans had been able to get Obamacare passed in the Gingrich/Clinton congress, as they wanted, we'd be alot better off as a country at this point in time. We wouldn't have 46 million children uninsured, with no health care. Romney went ahead and passed it in Mass, and it's vastly improved health care there, while lowering costs for everybody. It's a program
proven to work.
Which is a reason why Obama adopted it - along with it being a Republican-created and long-supported program for starting to revamp private health care, without single payer.
Who would have thought that Republican hate and deliberate obstruction of this president would extend to screwing the American public, as
the GOP denies support for their own health care reform in order to screw this president?
We should be ashamed, as a country, that 1/5 of our children live in poverty in America, get no health care and little food, and we have one of the highest neonatal death rates in the world.