[RustedCorpse]

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EVERYONE should have health insurance in the US


That's nonsense. The US should be like every other industrialize nation in the world.

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That's nonsense.

I don't want to wait 6 months for a /MRI/CT-scan or 12+ months for 'emergency' brain surgery.

If you're too cheap to buy insurance, it's your neck.


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Funny that everyone is quick to point out the examples like these. I can't help but think they are more rare than people like to imply.

I've been hurt overseas twice, once with a broken limb another time with minor internal surgery from a stab wound.

I paid nothing for either (I wasn't even a citizen of either country)the limb and follow up were immediate, and I didn't wait more than 3 weeks for the second surgery.

In the US, I waited 5 weeks for a specialist, and WITH insurance still shelled out $1200 bucks for kidney stones.


As for the too cheap to buy insurance line, sorry we're not all millionaires. And if you're implying insurance is affordable to everyone I want to live in your world.