| Your health insurance is my health insurance too -- if you don't get sick you are less likely to make me sick. Agree? |
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Asked 2 years ago
by Chipmonk  United States |
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About
Kinda squirrely; very opinionated; not always right; not always willing to admit to being not always right. :)
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Consider this too -- if you get sick and have health insurance that enables you to get doctored back to health quickly then the amount of time you are contagious is reduced and the chances you may infect me are also reduced. Likewise if I get sick and do not have health insurance then odds are good I will be contagious longer than a person who has health insurance, and it is likely I will infect more people. But, if you contribute a trifling percentage of your income to help pay for health insurance for all, and if I pay the same then by insuring that all people have health insurance it will help minimize the length and severity of their illness and the probability of them infecting other people (a group that includes the two of us).
Most health problems aren't contagious diseases.
But the statement is still correct, to a degree: If your health problems make you stay home from work, work less hard or quit altogether, it will be more for me to do, possibly harming my health.
It will be harming my economy anyway.
Your questions and comments never make me sick Chipmonk. Confused, perhaps, but never sick.
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[1 point] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyFor one time I agree with "translate"--shocker.
Health insurance should be for serious health problems, not for a cold or maybe even the flu. Things like that should just be paid for out of pocket. Being insured for every little thing is what causes insurance premiums to be so high. Ones car insurance does not cover a flat tire,,,for example.
Health care is not 'free' in Sweden as people often imagine. A visit to my doctor costs about US$17 which deterred me from troubling her about my present bad cold/swineflu(?). We also pay for medicines up to a ceiling of a few hundred dollars in any 12 month period.
I disagree. I think what caused premiums to be so high are outrageous costs for prescription medicine. I regularly get a ninety-day supply of this one particular medicine that costs me $87.50, but if I were paying for it out of pocket it would cost me $930 for the same ninety day supply. That's $10.33 per pill. In my college days illegal drugs didn't even cost that much per pill. Somebody's getting rich out there and our premiums take the hit for the greed of others.