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Originally Posted by Beebs
Insurance companies are "screwing everybody over" so you want to support the people who forced a bill through that makes buying from them mandatory?
Explain.
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You do know that they forced everyone to do that to get around pre-existing condition clauses, right? As I understand it, the logic is: If everybody HAS to have health insurance, they can't deny it for anybody. I have no evidence for this, but I feel like more people get denied who want health insurance than people who just plain don't want it.
Who else is there to support? I realize i'm getting fucked either way, but I've been around a little bit, and had the chance to see healthcare in a few other countries. Why is health care, in general, so fucking expensive in the U.S.? I got a local anesthetic and surgery on my big toe in for
$30
. I got general anesthetic, surgery, two pins in my finger that was broken in half and a night in the hospital, with no insurance, for $1,000 USD at one of the best hospitals in Korea.
Regardless, I understand where you're coming from. I shouldn't just be attacking; as I said, I realize it's kind of a shitty deal either way, and we both seem to think certain practices are unjust. What other alternatives could we do in the future to remedy these issues?