A Letter that was in the Letters to the Editor Today

[forrestkc]

Why should she? She has been forced to pay for it over the years. At the same time, it would have been better if the program was never created.

Yes, but you do realize that most people actually use a lot more in terms of Medicare benefits than they paid in. So, if one is so against any kind of "Socialism" and everything Democrats do, then you would think they would refuse Medicare out of principle. After all, the private sector does everything better than the public sector can, so certainly insurance for a retired individual in the private sector would be cheaper than Medicare right?

[forrestkc]

This is the year 2007. There has been no government program to pay for health insurance in the history of America, so what have we done up till now? How in the world did we ever survive without socialized medicine? With liberals, it is one made up crisis after another.

Actually, with liberals, they don't just look at nearly 50 million uninsured and think "well I aint uninsured so why should I care", instead they think "as a nation, we can do better".

[kat8585]

Why should she? She has been forced to pay for it over the years. At the same time, it would have been better if the program was never created.

Nor Social Security, nor the prescription drug biil.

[forrestkc]

No they wouldn't. They would take everything they could get back from the government since they were forced to pay all that money out of pocket over the years. Even if someone gets more back in that program, they paid into other worthless programs over the years, so I think they should get back all they can.

So otherwise, big government and socialism is bad, unless it benefits you personally.

[kat8585]

So what's your plan? What do you do with people who can't afford health care?

Charity will not work.

Why won't charity work? If people didn't have such a huge chunk taken out of their checks to be redistributed, they would have a lot more to give to charity.

Why not do it the way Jesus said to? Are you saying His way wouldn't work?

[forrestkc]

Why should she? She has been forced to pay for it over the years. At the same time, it would have been better if the program was never created.

Nor Social Security, nor the prescription drug biil.

You don't have to enroll in Medicare and pay the monthly premiums, you can always go out and get a policy in the private sector, if socialism is so bad, why not do it out of principle?

[forrestkc]

Why won't charity work? If people didn't have such a huge chunk taken out of their checks to be redistributed, they would have a lot more to give to charity.

Why not do it the way Jesus said to? Are you saying His way wouldn't work?

Charity is a tax deduction already. Jesus never said that a democratic society could not choose to create programs that benefit everyone. We do not live under a dictatorship. If we have a program to help the poor and needy in America, its because the majority of Americans want it. If they didn't we would not have it.

[hepatocyte]

So what's your plan? What do you do with people who can't afford health care?

Charity will not work.

Why won't charity work? If people didn't have such a huge chunk taken out of their checks to be redistributed, they would have a lot more to give to charity.

Why not do it the way Jesus said to? Are you saying His way wouldn't work?

So you're saying people are so generous as to donate enough money to provide health care to everyone that needs it?

His way would work if people were willing to give money.

"If people didn't have such a huge chunk taken out of their checks to be redistributed, they would have a lot more to give to charity."

- Yea...because people are just so charitable these days.

[forrestkc]

The way I look at it, they stole from me the entire time I worked, so if I can get back some of the money they stole, I will do so.

The government never paved a road for you? You never went to a park? You never had a FHA mortgage? Did you ever support a war? How was that paid for?

I just did a quote for equivalent Medical Insurance coverage to Medicare for a perfectly healthy 62 year old non-smoker. The best quote, for age 62, was 508 dollars a month for equivalent coverage to Medicare. Of course, the older you get, the more expensive it is, and if you have any health problems, it goes way up. At age 72, it would easily be twice that. Thats just for one individual. You and your wife would be a lot more together.

So if we did away with Medicare, do you think you can swing that kind of an insurance payment once you retire? Say your 70 with a history of heart disease, what do you figure insurance would be through the private sector, a couple of grand a month if you are lucky. Think you could swing that?

People that think they could do better than Medicare are living in a dream world. Without Medicare most people could not even afford health insurance once the retired. Their first heart attack would result in them going bankrupt. What a way to meet your golden years.

[kat8585]

So you're saying people are so generous as to donate enough money to provide health care to everyone that needs it?

His way would work if people were willing to give money.

"If people didn't have such a huge chunk taken out of their checks to be redistributed, they would have a lot more to give to charity."

- Yea...because people are just so charitable these days.

Well, it would help if we got the government out of health care entirely, so costs could come down. You'd be surprised how generous people would be, if they could be.

Again, would doing it the way Jesus said not work?