Sunday, March 20, 2011

If you are an adult WITHOUT health insurance, why don't you have it? What do you choose to spend your money on

It is a proven fact that the overwhelming majority of uninsured ADULTS are uninsured BY CHOICE. They CHOOSE not to get health insurance. For example, they CHOOSE to quit school at 15 and end up working in a low-paying, no-chance-for-advancement job. A boy or a girl might CHOOSE to have sex at 16 and get pregnant/impregnate someone. Others choose to have a TV in every room, 3 cars, smoke 2 packs a day, and drink a 6-pack at night, then complain they don't have any money to buy health insurance. What CHOICE have you made NOT to have health insurance?
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proven fact? really? to what study are you referring? you are an ignorant fool. there are plenty of people that graduated school, but couldn't afford college (or just not smart enough to go). they might work at a decent job for years and suddenly get laid off. COBRA coverage is crap if you don't have the $700/month to pay for it since you just got laid off. i'm not sure where you live; the economy overall in the US is pretty good. however, here in the Ohio Valley, we are in a serious recession due to losses in the steel and coal mining industries. i had to move back here to help out my family (yes, i realize it was a choice, but could i live with myself if i abandoned my family just to have heatlh insurance?). but there are no decent jobs here for someone in my field. so i am working 38 hours a week with no benefits because it is the best paying job i can find here. i could find a FT job at mcdonalds i suppose, but there is no way to survive on minimum wage and still contribute $50-$100 bucks a month toward insurance. i barely make enough to live on. i don't have 3 TVs or an iPod. i am typing this on a friend's computer. i drive a POS car that barely makes it to work. i don't drink, smoke, or do drugs. other than prostitution or drug dealing, where do i come up with hundreds of dollars a month for health insurance? sure people make a lot of choices that result in the inability to pay for health care. but you really are jackass if you can't understand how people can be kicked down by circumstances and find it hard to get back up.
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