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One detail you are missing is that people who don't have insurance right now still end up costing us billions of dollars. They just put their medical problems off until they get to the point of serious crisis at which time they head to the ER. Hospitals are not allowed, legally, to turn away a dying patient. But they will turn away anyone with a preventable disease if they don't have insurance.
Now think about that, what kind of sense does that make? If we make the decision that we are not going to let people die (which I guess you could agree or disagree with), is it smarter to spend money upfront to treat people's medical problems early, or later, when they are beyond the point of no return? It's the difference between solving a problem preventively and sweeping it under the rug, then being hit by the bill when it's too late.
I mean, you don't have to believe me, listen to Mitt Romney, I mean here's a guy who ran a capital fund and started up several businesses, he's not exactly a socialist. He saw the obviousness of this solution back before he had to pretend to be against it for political reasons:
"Gov. Romney, a Republican and a former businessman, bases his support on economics. When Romney became governor three years ago, a business colleague urged him to do something about the 500,000 or more Massachusetts residents without health insurance. Nearly nine out of ten are in working families.
After studying the problem, Romney says, he came away with a key insight: "People who don't have insurance nonetheless receive health care. And it's expensive."
"We're spending a billion dollars giving health care to people who don't have insurance," Romney says. "And my question was: Could we take that billion dollars and help the poor purchase insurance? Let them pay what they can afford. We'll subsidize what they can't."
- I agree, we need to get people living healthier before catastrophe.mathinc
- Also read my post below - there are plenty of process reforms in the bill. Media just doesn't like to spend time on that boring stuff;)ukit
- kind of stuff;)ukit
- and those who cost us billions cost us why...? Gov regulation. If i was poor i would choose a big screen tv over hc anyday with the gov at the helm********
- subsidization has limits. think lenin. this subsidization only increases costs but looks like less relatively becuase more bought in********
- bought in. its a philosophy of poverty for all, or at least those without political ties. but stil HOW does it decrease********