Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Insurance for Everyone Date:   6/25/2017 10:32:11 PM

The only people I think that are entitled to low cost or free health care are children.  (I'm not talking about what is owned verterans for their contributions). 

Back when Johnson envisioned "the Great Society" we were in the boom of post WWII.  So when things are booming, it is easy to be generous and want everyone to have some sense of security.  A lot of people liked it so much, they figured out ways to game the situation.  In the beginning, welfare was something to tide you over until you could get on your feel.  Food stamps were created that people should have the basic needs for food and was supposed to be a stopgap measure.  Then people realized that if they worked, their " benefit" decreased, so what was the inscentive to pull yourself up? 

Our country has changed a lot since those times.  We are engaged in wars that last for a long time and generate more injuries that need to be addressed, and pretty soon the VA was overwhelmed with patients. 

Some of us have seen this thing called Social Security Diability insurnace.  Pretty soon, people figure out that no one checks very often, and you could collect and then also work off the books.  This did not put your payment in jepoardy, and you didn't have to pay taxes on the money, nor claim it on your taxes.    People were paying into Social Security as though ti were a retirement program.  And then our govenrment needed to borrow the money and left behind them a big pile of IOU.

Most people do not save their money -not for their retirement and not to cover any emergencies.  People started suing Drs. and got big payments, adn the Drs.  and hospitals raised their prices to buy insurace to cover this eventuality.  For a long time, people just wanted to be able to buy affordable insurance, but then, a lot of people looked around at other countries and decided that they were entitled to free health care too.  They don't consider the tax rate of those countries with "free" healthcare, and they decided that the government could find a way to pay for it.  They attempted to put people with health care insurnace on a guilt trip. 

We cannot have free health care here, because the vast majority of people don't want to have to pay higher taxes so that someone else can go to the Dr. At heart, we are not a socialist country.  So many of us still belong to paying our own way.