Re: Just Saw Sicko, Now Have Question
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I'm all for universal health care here, as I think the biggest problem with our system is people who are afraid to go to work and lose their state-covered health care.
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Only pregnant mothers and seniors have state-covered health care. Everyone else can go to the ER, hospital will bill them, and then never collect (IF the person doesn't have money). Health care for these people is subsidized by paying customers. "40Million people without healthcare" is a myth. 40million people may not be covered by insurance, but they surely wont be denied care, its against the law.
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You're talking out of your ass. In CA people on welfare are covered. But it's administered by county. In LA it's like an HMO. Some counties like Santa Barbara it sucks a lot worse. My friend has gotten $150k worth of eye surgeries at UCLA eye center because she's indigent and disabled (although not enough to get disabilty [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]) in LA County.
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My friend has diabetes. She got a job with a small company and her health insurance was going to be like 3/4 of her salary. That's nuts.
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That's life. At least the company was willing to cover 25%.
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Where do you get that? The company wasn't covering squat. Her premium was 75% of her salary. Large companies often cover a lot of the premium, small companies don't have to. I think after 6 months her insurance would go down substantially though.
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Sorry, you are correct. The socialist PRC does have state/county health care (for now). Most do not.
Apologies, I misread. I thought they were paying 75% of her premium. Insurance is not inexpensive. There are ways to make it cheaper:
1. Increase the supply of insurance companies (by encouraging competition, instead of protecting the industry through legislation)
2. Increase the supply of doctors (through education and immigration).
State sponsored anything costs on average 3x what deregulated anything costs.(you can find citation on CATO)
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