I can't say for sure since I'm not in the same boat, but it's probably a hell of a lot easier to deny people health insurance when your ass is covered. Then again, what did anybody ever do to deserve it in the first place?
If you answered: nothing, then congratulations, you are right! And people shouldn't have to do anything to be eligible to have health insurance, what makes one person deserve it and another person not? Whoever thinks they're entitled to make that decision must have some extreme ego issues.
In my "Social Welfare Issues" class in college, I watched a doc called "Sick Around the World," which I highly recommend. I'm not going to get into the details, but the most important point I got out of it was that the five Countries studied in the film, (Germany, UK, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan,) all agreed that health care was a human right. In other words, being a human being was reason enough to receive medical attention whenever it was needed.
In the film, each of the Countries was studied in-depth, and the positive and negative aspects of each health care system were laid out. So nobody's got it perfect-yet. It would be nice if the US could pry apart some of the details of health care systems around the world and make a creation all its own. I just don't understand why our country continues to think that people need to prove themselves in order to be healthy.
I'm a type 1 diabetic. That's to say, I didn't eat my pancreas to death. At this point in time, I'm covered under my Dad's insurance until I'm 26, (thank Heavens.) Otherwise, I would probably be scrambling right now to find a job that would provide insurance. Instead, I have some time to a)travel and b) think about what I really want to do with the rest of my life rather than get stuck at a job that I have to have merely in order to stay alive. And there's people who are a lot worse off than I am. People end up paying off medical bills for the rest of their lives, even after they're sick! I encourage those people to move to a country where they would be "deserving" of health care.
And while we're at it, let's try to be a little more preventative, a little less reactionary. That's a different discussion altogether, though.
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