ThePickledPunk
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- Oct 30, 2009
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If I fail to get insurance, fail to save up for a medical emergency, and end up in an emergency room, how would you describe my decision-making process?
If you make $10 an hour, which is now bevoming the norm for entry level jobs, how on EARTH can you afford to:
1. Get any insurance, including company offered.
2. Afford to save any money at all, especially for an emergency health fund.
3. Make any other decision other than to go to the ER if you are truly ill and can't afford to pay full price at a clinic.
My colleague in New Jersey is getting laid off at the end of November job paying $40k a year. Every job that she has interviewed for is paying $10 or less because there is so much competition for jobs, desperate people are taking anything to have money coming in. That's HALF of what she used to make. Oh, and she was diagnosed with MS this past year, so she'll probably have a field day getting covered. Yeah, she's SO irresponsible. And where do you suppose these extra two and three part time jobs are, hmm? You are truly not living in the real world.
Health care is completely out of reach for all but the extremely wealthy. Private and company insurance is out of reach for the majorty of the people in this country seeing as the average income is 40K. It's one thing if you're single on that amount, but if you're supporting a family, forget about it. The insurance companies care about nothing but profit. We will have an alternative one way or another. Get used to it.
My wife and I receive healthcare. We live on 70k a year.....in San Diego. Not exactly rich. And over 200 million people in this country have health insurance. Of those that dont, only about ten million truly cannot afford it. You are hysterical.