07-16-2017, 05:13 PM
(07-16-2017, 09:41 AM)SickBeast Wrote: 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?
And sometimes people make their own hard times with booze, dope, sloth, too proud to do "that kind of work".
When Obamacare passed we had 86% of people with health insurance and 8% unemployment. So we had 94% of people either covered or looking for work and a big percentage of the rest were college age young folks who didn't have insurance, but didn't really need it either because when you're that age you usually don't have health issues or visit doctors much.
Is it a tragedy people couldn't say, "I'm going to live in mom's basement and collect aluminum cans for scrap and maybe mow some lawns for spare cash for weed and slurpees, some folks with real jobs will just have to buy my healthcare."? Not in my opinion, safety nets should be just that- not people choosing to take money from others.