Perhaps because 50% don't pay
by
Don
11/07/2009, 2:15 PM #
income taxes to start with. Every time you see a poll on something paid for by taxes it is best to remember that 97% of income taxes are paid by 50% of the people.... more free stuff has a way of being popular.
Where people are missing the boat in a big way on the cost side of the equation is that premiums for the public option will assuredly be MUCH higher that private programs. The reason is pretty clear, the percentage of those without insurance that are not in the highest group of at risk is quite low. Look for the smokers, drinkers, morbidly obese.. These people, and the ones that don’t pay taxes now will be the death of the public option form a cost standpoint, which will be picked up by the public option being paid for by taxes mostly, or forcing what Obama has said he really wants a true socialist single payer system
This is a real letter..
This letter appeared in the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger dated August 23rd
Dear Sirs:
During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, pierced tongue, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone.
Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.
She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our president expects me to pay for this woman's health care? Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture - a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on pleasures and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."
STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson, MS
