Reply #16: Let the Yuppies get sick, or their parents, or have a sick kid. [View All]

[Hoyt]

Then, they won't have the money to buy a BMW, fancy clothes, etc.

People who haven't had a real sickness in their family, have no idea what happens and how quickly a severe medical condition plunges them into "the poor house".

Our current system does not adequately spread the risk. Further, our current system does not really encourage investment in preventive care. A health insurer isn't going to pay for a lot of preventive care because it takes years or decades to produce results. By then, most insureds have changed insurers several times.

Insurance companies spend too much on marketing, CEO salaries, stockholder returns, ways to deny care, impediments to care, etc.

In any event, these fuckers need to watch -- really watch -- "Sicko". And maybe visit a nursing facility and see people who were doing well financially until the auto wreck, cancer, mental illness, fall, etc., struck.

Appealing to them about fairness and that everyone deserves adequate health care, won't work. They are the new Libertarians/Republicans who believe "as long as I can get mine (or have mine), the hell with anyone else."

But, I suppose most of us here know all this.