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Sun Oct-19-03 11:46 AM
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4. Besides not choosing to get sick, eventually you will get |
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a chronic disease that will be the catalyst of your dying. This is why health care and insurance are compatible. Insurance is there to take care of accidents. It is based on the premise that there will be fewer accidents that they have to pay for than the premiums they collect. Hence, this is why they insure healthy people.
Deteriorating health is not an accident, It is a given and it doesn't always happen in old age. Also attaching health care to employment is ludicrous. Children, who could have a debilitating disease, aren't employed. Often their parents don't have benefits. There is a patchwork of help out there, it is inefficient and needs to be replaced with a single payer system.
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