Won't it give better coverage for the nation for those who simply can't afford Insurance?
If i was really poor and had no insurance and got hit by a bus, is there a government safety net to help pay for my treatment? Or say i get cancer and don't have insurance, no one is going to want to give me a medical policy then as they know i am going to be claiming loads on it.
Can Medicare etc refuse people insurance, and are all premiums the same?
Of course you can be denied medicare and medicaid if you do not meet the criteria. It all depends on your physical ailment and financial situation.
Just as a car insurance company won't insure someone with a DWI and a suspended license, you will probably not be able to sign insurance forms if you are actively dying from a terminal illness. That's just not how insurance works
And yes a blanket insurance plan run by the feds would give poor people insurance. Moreover, it gives lazy people who refuse jobs and collect food stamps their entire lives a free ticket to ride (not a free ticket, but a ticket that non-lazy people that work 50 hours a week like myself will pay for), not to mention a massive, easily accessible stream of money for the government to steal from when no one is looking.
Maybe it's a difference of culture and the way were brought up Simon, I'm not sure. Would you be willing to give money to a person that smoked cigarettes for 30 years and has terminal lung cancer and needed $250,000 in treatment to stay alive for another few months? How about a quadruple bypass to a man that weighs 400 pounds, eats McDonalds 4 times a day and has been on disability for 20 years because of his weight and cannot work (remember, the money from disability came out of your paycheck too)? I don't know about you Simon, and perhaps this makes me a sociopath, but I couldn't give a rat's furry little turd cutter if these people lived or died. They are completely out of the realm of my responsibilities. And these people are sucking millions upon millions out of working peoples' pockets daily. I don't know how it is in the UK because I don't live there, but these people are like a disease here. They're born and bred here and our modern liberal system supports this lifestyle more and more by the day.
