my connection with the tea party

[eppie]

When it comes down to the negotiation of care, ALL of my poor friends get the care they need, but maybe not the care they want. I'm reminded of a close friend who is a very poor artist. She needed a $30,000 (rock bottom price) surgery and didn't have insurance or that kind of money. She ended up negotiating a deal where she would make a sculpture in exchange. Barring that, her cadre of artist friends were willing to step in and help out too. By far, most of my personal experience and the stories of "denied" that I hear of are from people with insurance where the insurance company refuses to pay after the fact.

Which country is this? Angola?

The question is not "Would you treat him?" The questions was, "Should someone be forced to treat him at their own expense?" And, people always get confused by this... insurance <> health care. Insurance is a financial product where you abate risk. I can afford to pay $13500 per year for health insurance to protect me from the rare chance I'll need millions of dollars of health care.

It is a question of civilization. Some people will need more care and some people are to dumb (or simply to poor) to pay for health insurance. The government and , you the people, decide if you want to help your citizens (also the dumber and poorer ones) or not.

I mean your government also decides that in order to save its citizens it needs to invade Iraq and Afghanistan right? So why can they decide that and pay for it, and not decide to have a simpler and more fair health care system?