Those court appointed defendants are overworked underpaid and sometime you won’t ever meet them before your court date. It’s better than nothing but I would not want a “court appointed” doctor they would look at ur broken leg and put a bandaid on it.
Nope. Per US law, no hospital can refuse to treat some who comes into their ER. Hospitals also write off billions (with a B) in charity care and bad debts due to unpaid bills.
In which case it will turn into my problem, not anybody else's, and still the chances of something so happening to me that insurance won't cover or that I can't pay is fairly slim, so I'll take my chances.
Yeah. A lot of people say that until they're the one in need of help.
Insurance companies profit off of denying care to people so they try to find loopholes as much as they can. That's why universal healthcare is in my opinion the way to go, because you pay into the system and then you're guaranteed to get help when you really need it. You don't have a scummy health insurance company filling their pockets with your money and then denying you care based on bullshit excuses and fine print.
Capitalism is great for industries driven by innovation and competition. But when lives are on the line, I'd rather have a system which doesn't enable people to profit off of other people's bad luck. Because that's what it is, you can catch a rare disease or get hit by a car, you never know, and people usually buy the cheapest plans because they can't afford a better one or they think it will never happen to them... until it does.
Ok but what if Insurance can afford to cover my healthcare or I'm financially stable enough to cover it. How does YOUR health problems equal to my problem.
So if you let's say get laid off because the company you work at starts losing money due to the situation on the market and you either lose the insurance provided by the employer or you just can't afford it until you find a new job, and something serious happens to you, you deserve to die?
The fact that you're in a good situation right now doesn't mean you will be in a few years, anything can happen. And as I already said, even with the best insurance plan the companies will still try to wriggle their way out of paying for your care because that's how they fill their pockets.
Your arguments are a textbook example of what I was talking about. "I'M in a good situation, why should I care about YOUR healthcare?" And then something bad happens and you'll beg for help and will feel angry and desperate when other people tell you that they don't give a fuck about your healthcare. I sincerely wish you never had to encounter a situation like that of course, but again, you really never know.
F*ck the US medical system! I was unable to work bc of a degenerative disc disease in my back & when it got worse & the disc had fully degraded, i couldn't move. I had emergency surgery. Obviously, I still couldn't work but they expected me to pay somehow. 2yrs later when i found a job I could do in my condition, they garnished my wages so much that i lost everything & had to move across town to live w my parents. Thank God for my folks!
Insurance companies profit off of denying care to people so they try to find loopholes as much as they can. That's why universal healthcare is in my opinion the way to go, because you pay into the system and then you're guaranteed to get help when you really need it. You don't have a scummy health insurance company filling their pockets with your money and then denying you care based on bullshit excuses and fine print.
Capitalism is great for industries driven by innovation and competition. But when lives are on the line, I'd rather have a system which doesn't enable people to profit off of other people's bad luck. Because that's what it is, you can catch a rare disease or get hit by a car, you never know, and people usually buy the cheapest plans because they can't afford a better one or they think it will never happen to them... until it does.
The fact that you're in a good situation right now doesn't mean you will be in a few years, anything can happen. And as I already said, even with the best insurance plan the companies will still try to wriggle their way out of paying for your care because that's how they fill their pockets.
Your arguments are a textbook example of what I was talking about. "I'M in a good situation, why should I care about YOUR healthcare?" And then something bad happens and you'll beg for help and will feel angry and desperate when other people tell you that they don't give a fuck about your healthcare. I sincerely wish you never had to encounter a situation like that of course, but again, you really never know.