The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-09-2020, 02:58 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: In short, we don't need your politicians or your third world politics because we are all quite capable of standing on our own two feet and surviving so to speak. Just so you understand what you're really dealing with, the number of individuals like me in the country grew substantially over the last four years and the blues (Democratic side) had to scrap the bottom of the barrel of society for the votes that it needed to win and the situation for most of those who are on the Democratic side ain't going to get better for them than it is for them right now either. What you are going to see is two countries functioning more and more like two countries than anyone has ever seen in this country before now and a realization by those in DC that there is nothing that they are able to do about the growing partisan divide that exists in this country today.

To some extent, this is a belief that one can save money by not buying insurance.  If you don't buy health insurance,  and you don't get sick, you have won, right?  Most people don't get that sick.  For years when working I didn't use my company provided health care except for one case where I sprained a knee playing ultimate frisbee.  Years of paying in with no return.  Then I developed diabetes and had the brain tumor.  The fact that the insurance was there allowed me to fight the various diseases and not worry about finances.  I got good care and didn't go bankrupt.

Having everybody have health care means no one is forced to gamble.  Our society doesn't let people go untreated, at least in normal times.  The emergency room can't turn people away because they are not insured.  So instead, the hospitals jack the price of all health care, and everybody has to pay.  The supposedly independent gambler is just leeching off those who can pay.

Me, I am not that much a gambler.  The idea that if you are in need the government has a policy to get you through is acceptable.  The idea that a certain small but finite number of people are going to be schrod does not seem desirable or acceptable.