Why we need a First World health care system

[supergee]

The problems we have because Smart Republican Paul Ryan and his followers think that insurance shouldn’t work like insurance

Thanx to mslorelei

Comments

[arlie]

You know the Republican answer - get rid of Medicaid, and government funded disability too. Or introduce enough delays that "Bob" dies sooner rather than later. After all, type 2 diabetes is the result of "bad lifestyle choices" (eating what the food establishment produces, instead of cooking from scratch, mostly). And not being able to afford insurance is clearly the patient's fault too - if he'd worked harder, he'd have succeeded in America's "open, meritocratic society." (Not to mention that according to "prosperity theology", if he were a good person, God would have made him rich.)

Health insurance is a misnomer

[necturus]

There is a small possibility my house will catch fire, so I maintain an insurance policy whereby my insurance company bets against me that my house won't catch fire; if it does, they pay, but if it doesn't, I do.

But it is a mathematical certainty that I will get sick sooner or later; any insurance company would have to be a fool to bet against me that I wont. So, the only way the insurance company wins is by weaseling out of paying when I do get sick. Health "insurance" is therefore nothing of the sort, but a ripoff. It needs to be abolished, and we need to have single-payer health care.