Health Care: Who Needs It?

The Nationalized Health Care debate continues in Washington and in many communities across America. Many well meaning people seem willing to accept a little socialism, if it means helping a wide swath of the citizenry obtain a basic human right. Socialist politicians recognize a wedge issue to grant a new entitlement to a segment of the population, thereby cementing their political support for generations.

Is health care a basic human right? The Declaration of Independence proclaims that, “all Men…are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights…Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

It seems strange to ask government to give me something already granted by a higher power. The government cannot restrict or take this right away.

Most of the political arguments refer to 50 million Americans that do not have health insurance. The cynic requires accurate numbers from a more reliable source than a poll on TV.

According to the 2005 census, the total number of uninsured people in America counts 46.577 million. 9.487 million are NOT LEGAL citizens and 8.3 million made $50,000 to $74,999 per year and chose not to buy insurance. An additional 8.74 million make over $75,000 per year and do not buy insurance.

Among uninsured that own their own home, 60% reported excellent or very good health. Median household income in 2005 was $46,326 so 17.04 million can afford insurance, but chose not to buy it! That is 36.5% of total uninsured.

Of the remaining 20.05 million without health insurance, 45% will have insurance again within four months, because of job changes, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Therefore, government figures place the “problem” at a high of 11.0275 million. The liberal Kaiser Health foundation finds that “chronically uninsured” account for 8.2 million. If we split the difference between these two authoritative sources, we end up with 9.73 million, or 3.4% of American Citizens.

The Census Bureau believes that their methodology actually underreported the number of people that have insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid. There may not be as many uninsured as their published numbers.

If you would like more information on the uninsured problem in America, Business and Media published “Health Care Lie”

After all the math, we end at the truth; one-half of the uninsured problem in the U.S. is illegal aliens! The question naturally must be asked, “What about the 9.487 million illegal aliens that may seek health care, but have no insurance?” This is a difficult issue.

Why not stabilize them, out of humanity, and call INS? The government can offer a free ticket to their county’s nationalized health system. We could call it “Compassionate Crisis Transfer” or CCT for short.

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Comments

[YoYoMama:]

Mr. Dalt -

How old are you? Old enough to receive Medicare? If so, do you feel so strongly about your position that you will hand back your Medicare card to the government?

Please also explain how it is that 1/2 of the bankruptcies filed today are because of medical expenses, and of those filers, 75% HAVE INSURANCE.

Those who do not feel any changes are warranted in our free market system are not on the ugly side of the system. My family is. My website talks about my story.

My husband and I run a small business from our home so we can be there for my special needs son. We have to hide his condition from our insurance company in order for our family to be covered by insurance at all. We then have to pay ALL his medical expenses and prescriptions outside of insurance, to the tune of almost $4,000 a year. Our premiums cost $7,000 a year. For this outlay of cash, we still have a $15,000 deductible for our family, and our policy has so many loopholes in it that if anything DOES happen, we are on the hook for most of the expenses.

For those not on Medicare, Medicaid or a cushy large group plan, those are your options... no insurance, or personal health insurance, which pretty much equals no insurance.

I am STILL waiting for a health reform detractor to explain to me HOW the current system really is working for me, or how they would fix the system so that it does.

Jun 21 08:38 AM

[overtaxed42...:]

Sounds like you should either find insurance that has lower costs and provides at least some coverage without so many loopholes. What's the saying? Buyer beware. This goes for insurance companies I think just as much as for any other business. Maybe even more so since the insurance xompanies are so tightly wound up with the government. Insurance companies most likely
pay out more to government combined than they do in claims combined is my opinion. They have found a nice little niche in which to screw taxpayers out of more and more every year and now with their paychecks falling they are scrambling to find new inventive ways to provide those lost revenues AND maintain a cost of living invrease. Hey they gotta have their luxury items ya know. Running a business that sells a notion of "what if" and never pays on the income and fights against paying on it tooth and nail will always come out ahead. It is a lot cheaper to force people to pay and then fight against claims when and IF they transpire. Since you don't even provide coverage for your "special needs" son, why do you even have health insurance anyway? You should actually join one of those prescription drug programs that supposedly lower prescription costs. Good luck with that too. Those things cost an asverage of $20 per month. If you have less in prescription costs than that then your losing on that deal too. Most larger drug companies do offer programs that make higher costs of many of their drugs affordable though.
Besides all those points, just remember this, your son and your lives are yours. They are yours to provide for, they are your choices that you make on your own. They are not mine, I do not want to provide for you or anyone else. I do not want government forcing me to do anything yet here I am being forced to pay for millions of illegals health care and the food they eat and the shelter they live in. Yet I have income less than they do in many examples I am sure. I live beneath my means and do not ask for anything. I don't think anyone is obliged to give me health care or provide me anything at all. If I make a choice to have children then I will provide for them, I will not go ask anyone else to. A family is the responsibility of the families head. No one elses. Survival of the fittests it seems has fallen prey to socialism. Even so, the fittests are still going to survive a lot easier than the gimme this and gimme that cause I deserve it losers of this world.

Jun 21 08:38 AM YoYoMama wrote:

> Mr. Dalt -
>
> How old are you? Old enough to receive Medicare? If so, do you feel
> so strongly about your position that you will hand back your Medicare
> card to the government?
>
> Please also explain how it is that 1/2 of the bankruptcies filed
> today are because of medical expenses, and of those filers, 75% HAVE
> INSURANCE.
>
> Those who do not feel any changes are warranted in our free market
> system are not on the ugly side of the system. My family is. My website
> talks about my story.
>
> My husband and I run a small business from our home so we can be
> there for my special needs son. We have to hide his condition from
> our insurance company in order for our family to be covered by insurance
> at all. We then have to pay ALL his medical expenses and prescriptions
> outside of insurance, to the tune of almost $4,000 a year. Our premiums
> cost $7,000 a year. For this outlay of cash, we still have a $15,000
> deductible for our family, and our policy has so many loopholes in
> it that if anything DOES happen, we are on the hook for most of the
> expenses.
>
> For those not on Medicare, Medicaid or a cushy large group plan,
> those are your options... no insurance, or personal health insurance,
> which pretty much equals no insurance.
>
> I am STILL waiting for a health reform detractor to explain to me
> HOW the current system really is working for me, or how they would
> fix the system so that it does.

Jul 02 09:11 PM