07-16-2017, 09:41 AM
(07-16-2017, 03:00 AM)SickBeast Wrote: I find taking healthcare away from 22 million people, essentially sentencing them to death if they contract a fatal disease[/B], far more radical than raising the minimum wage to $15. Perhaps I care too much about my fellow man. I just can't do that to someone if I can do anything about it.
I think if they contract a fatal disease they're dead with or without health care, the "fatal" is the tell tale clue?
As far as taking healthcare from people, I learned a magic trick to get around that back in the day.
You get a "job" and your employer gives you healthcare with it!
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/13/number-of...acare.html
Quote:Employer-sponsored insurance is, by far, the the most common source of health coverage in the United States.
There are an estimated 155 million people under age 65 covered by such plans. That dwarfs the 76 million or so people covered by Medicaid, the government-run program that benefits primarily poor people and children, and the approximately 55 million covered by Medicare, the government program primarily for senior citizens.
Just 11.1 million people are currently covered by Obamacare plans sold via government-run marketplaces.
What Obamacare did to expand coverage was allow people like Apoppin to say,"My job is now benchmarking video cards! The taxpayers can buy my health insurance because no one will give it to me for benchmarking video cards." which is pretty much crap. We always had help for the young, old, disabled, very poor.
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Sometimes people fall on hard times. 22 million is a lot of people. You really think they can all go out and find a job tomorrow?