American Health Care Reform Redux
Dec. 18th, 2009 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyA genuine naïve furrn'r question here:
Okay, so if a shitload of Americans are not insured* because they can't afford it or are unemployed, how does making it illegal to not have health insurance help in any way?
The way I see it, forcing people to give money they don't have in the first place to companies that will just screw them when they get sick anyway, actually makes the situation worse. The only thing progressive here is the idea that everyone should have health care, except that instead of placing the responsibility on the state, where it belongs, it is placed on the people with the least amount of political or economic clout.
Am I missing anything here?
* Putting aside for a moment the problematic notion of private health insurance or the fact that most insured people are still screwed because their insurance doesn't cover enough. Which we shouldn't put aside, because it's important. But it's obvious that the solution is more socialism; I'm just talking about what's currently on the table.
Okay, so if a shitload of Americans are not insured* because they can't afford it or are unemployed, how does making it illegal to not have health insurance help in any way?
The way I see it, forcing people to give money they don't have in the first place to companies that will just screw them when they get sick anyway, actually makes the situation worse. The only thing progressive here is the idea that everyone should have health care, except that instead of placing the responsibility on the state, where it belongs, it is placed on the people with the least amount of political or economic clout.
Am I missing anything here?
* Putting aside for a moment the problematic notion of private health insurance or the fact that most insured people are still screwed because their insurance doesn't cover enough. Which we shouldn't put aside, because it's important. But it's obvious that the solution is more socialism; I'm just talking about what's currently on the table.
