Can someone explain the health care 'crisis' to me?

[natedogg]

The health care crisis is a manufactured crisis, just like child obesity, peak oil, immigration, and every other "crisis" that is supposedly bringing our country down. Notice that the solutions required by the fearmongers never fail to increase their own power. What an amazing coincidence. I wonder why that is?


With regard to "health care crisis", the truth is everybody in this country can get insurance for a reasonable price if they are responsible enough to buy the insurance BEFORE they come down with something. And even then, thanks to intrusive regulations, your fellow employees are basically forced to shoulder the burden of the cost of your uninsured condition anyway.

All you have to do is GET A JOB and you will be covered. And yes, some people get screwed when they lose their job for more than 2 years or so, and that is the fault of current govt interventionism. Why is your insurance tied to your job in the first place? Because of stupid government regulations. And as always, government creates a problem, then decries the existence of the problem and calls for a solution that requires more government intervention. Rinse and repeat.

In an extreme scenario where you are too sick to get a job and you are not already covered, all you have to do is have your spouse get a job. And even then, short of cancer or other major conditions you can still afford to just BUY THE SERVICE. Yes, even people living on low wages can arrange for loans and payment plans to get a surgery, assuming they don't just go freeload off the ER or the county hospital (Yes! We already provide free health care to the very poorest uninsured folks anyway! So what's the problem? It's a manufactured crisis designed to secure more power. That's all).

Putting aside for now what you as a citizen should do for people who failed to buy fire insurance and had the misfortune of a their house getting burned down, this situation is not proof that the system is broken.

In fact, if you are insured you have amazing health care and often at very little additional cost to yourself. Some co-pays are nonexistent or as low as 20 bucks.


The fact that someone fails to buy insurance and then suffers an event that could have been insured is NOT proof that the system is broken.

I'm not saying "let them die" but I am saying that there's no crisis in american health care.

natedogg