Will you boycott mandated "health care" insurance?

[L. Coyote]

Question inspired by this comment:

Oregone
19. Universal Health Care? Don't you mean "Mandated Private, For-Profit, Claim-Denying Health Insurance"?

Discuss: For-profit Insurance in Universal Health Care is Absolutely Unacceptable.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5717900#5718559
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Sen. Max Baucus, Top Contributors, opensecrets.org = 2008:
Pharmaceuticals/Health = $852,813
Health Professionals = $851,141
Insurance = $784,185
Lobbyists = $470,774
Hospitals/Nursing Homes = $466,826
Health Services/HMOs = $465,750
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Out of State = 90 percent
NY = $845,542
DC-MD-VA-WV = $757,634
LA LA = $267,500
SAN FRAN = $227,400
CHICAGO = $162,000
59601 (HELENA, MT) = $49,106
90210 = $44,100

[Laelth]

1. I'd have no choice.

I can't afford mandatory, for-profit health insurance.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Stinky The Clown]

2. How do I boycott it?

If not single payer, then one has to get one's medical costs covered, so what are the choices?

Will my fellow boycotters pay my medical bills?

[Kitty Herder]

3. I would have to boycott it because I can't afford it.

It's that simple. So what kind of solution is that?

[L. Coyote]

4. U: "So what kind of solution is that? " Whose solution is it?

It is a solution for insurance companies to make more money.
It's a solution for health providers collecting profits.
It's a solution for creative, regressive 3rd-party taxation.

It's NOT a solution for health care.

[Kitty Herder]

11. Absolutely.

You are correct. It just pisses me off that it's being put forward as some kind of solution to the health care crisis.

[xchrom]

5. i couldn't afford my doctor with out some kind of

health insurance.

i want nationalized health care -- but if it's employer mandated is all i can get -- then that's it.

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. The only people who will be mandated to buy that shit

are those who do not have health benefits provided through their employment and those who do not otherwise have government funded access to some kind of health care (the elderly, the young, the poor, the disabled, government workers, elected officials, prisoners, Native Americans, etc.). And those who do not work for a small business that qualifies for state subsidized health insurance.

I'm betting those mandated to buy this crap are required to use fully taxable dollars to make the purchase too.

Nevermind that folks who can't afford to buy health insurance now are not going to magically be able to afford it just because it is mandated.

Americans are fucking stupid. That is the only explanation for why we keep electing health care funded politicians who offer these kinds of completely ignorant, out of touch, unrealistic solutions to our health care crisis. As far as I'm concerned any politician who does not support single payer can take their sorry selfish greedy a$$ home. Now. They are not part of the solution.

[meow2u3]

7. Other: I'm on Medicare

due to a lifelong disability. Thank God I have Medicare--and Tricare for Life because my dad retired from the Army and left me his insurance when he passed away 20 years ago.
The only insurance I don't have are dental and vision. I can't get my teeth worked on without visiting a military base and my bifocals cost me about $300, including eye exams (unless I see an ophthomologist, which I can due to Type 2 diabetes).

[prolesunited]

8. If it's cheaper than what we're currently paying for COBRA

no.

[subterranean]

9. I voted maybe.

By "boycott," do you mean refusing to buy the insurance and paying whatever tax penalty is charged?
It would depend on the details. If government subsidies are available to make the insurance affordable to me, I guess I would enroll in an insurance plan. If it's just a mandate to buy worthless insurance at whatever extortionate rates the insurance companies want to charge, then I'll just pay the penalty and continue to go uninsured.

I will also vote against any candidate who supports mandated (or non-mandated) for-profit insurance without a strong public option.

[backscatter712]

10. If they're gonna make it mandatory, they'd better have hefty financial aid so we can afford it.

What good is it to have a mandate when we still have to choose between food and rent and buying health insurance?

[L. Coyote]

12. Good to see how many selected to work against candidates ....

[Greyhound]

13. Not sure boycott is the right word,

more like too broke to pay anything.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. For profit health care is a death sentence...nt

[New Dawn]

15. Mandated for-profit healthcare is a fascist concept.

I'd never go along with that.