Sam said:
Ramo said:
It works in Canada because here in Canada we have so much less people than America does. It really only works if you don't have crazy amount of people.
Why? More people = more taxes which means you can have a public healthcare system.
I really don't know how healthcare works in other countries but I do know, when I last checked (admittedly over a year ago), we were paying 4 times less for our healthcare than the US. We pay less because of Pharmac (a bulk drug funding agency) and public hospitals.
Anything which brings down the cost of healthcare and makes it accessible and affordable is good in my book. Access to healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.
I couldn't agree more with you if i tried.
Before this law, my husband and I would have had to pay almost $1500 a month for health insurance through his employer. We don't have kids, but because he is a contract employee, who works for an individual who owns a small business with less than 100 employees, he wouldn't get the same affordable benefits he had, if say, he worked for a much larger company with thousands of employees.
So, because his boss owns a small company of less than 100 people, the exorbitant insurance costs would be passed directly to the people. Although this job pays him much better than the one he came from, with his old job, he would have been paying $250 each month because his employer was a huge corporation.
Under his current employer, we couldn't afford the insurance and so we went without, and if anything came up, and it did, we paid for it with cash. I told my husband that if, in the event of a life threatening health issue should arise, and if treatment is going to leave us in insurmountable debt for the rest of our lives, that I would rather that he just let me go, and move on.
I told him that although he may not like or agree with it, that it is cheaper to let me go, and then cremate me, then to try something that may not work and end up leaving us in serious debt, thus ruining 2 lives instead of 1.
Thanks to this law, my husband and I are spending $350 each month, and we've been able to keep all of our doctors as well, and our plan is actually better than the one he would have been paying $1500 a month for.
The law isn't perfect, and still needs work, especially the fact that the same groups that are against birth control (despite its many uses other than its namesake) being covered, are A-OK with penis pumps like Post-T-Vac and medications like Viagra being covered instead.
But overall, it works.
And honestly, taxes aren't bad, they go to the things that benefit everyone, like schools, hospitals, roads, law enforcement and the fire department, etc. and quite frankly, as someone who lives in a state with some of the highest taxes and cost of living in the nation, I would gladly pay more in taxes, if it means saving the lives and helping other people.
