[quote=briansd1]flu, please don’t take it personally.
It’s common parlance to describe the very nature of insurance.
With health insurance, you have the leeches (those with chronic diseases, cancer, families with kids who use maternity services, etc…) and the golden geese, like me, who never go to the doctor’s.
In fact, I have a little pink rash on my face that won’t go away. I don’t want to go see the doctor who will just tell me to use a hydrocortisone cream. Anyway, hope it’s not the beginning stage of chronic exzema that will forever mar my good looks. ;)[/quote]
There is a difference between what insurance does and who pays for it… What part if “I pay for my insurance, complete with terms/limits/etc” did your pea brain not understand?
And please explain to me how it is possible that we can possibly cover the Medicare deficit? Because the problem is the system is broke. You have baby boomers retiring in droves, you have generation X, Y, Z, etc not making up the difference because, and short of a flood legalized immigration in which a lot more people pay into the system, ain’t going to work.
How about increasing the cost of people using these benefits, IE folks that are using it? You want to socialize medicine. Fine. Great. Perfect… Then socialize it… Get the insurance companies out of the way. This hybrid system of an insurance middleman doesn’t work.
