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Originally Posted by XfireZ51
Administrative "costs" for "for profit" health insurance companies is ~15%. For Medicare its 3%. More of your money goes to paying healthcare bills and not shareholders, bondholders, the CEO and all the marketing expenses.
Healthcare is a right. Its a necessity for living in a society, like air, water, and these days of course electricity and the internet. I am not interested in having the government make smartphones, corn flakes, or automobiles.
There's many places where for profit is completely appropriate. And I support that. However, making money off of whether someone lives or dies isn't one of them.
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The workers that staff medicare are not "free". We pay for them.
You presume the government operation to be less costly than private sector services.
I do not share that view.
Right? what right?
I pay for my private healthcare insurance.
I have paid into medicare my entire working life, and have, with employer help, paid for private healthcare my entire working life. It's no right, I earned and paid for it.
Same with Social Security.
I pay for my water, my electricity, my internet, my Registry membership and all of MY necessity's.
The government doesn't have money of their own, they get it from you and me.
So I pay for me, then must pay for the others too?
Why don't they pay?
This is fair?
I have the right to work to earn money to pay for what I need.
I have earned money by working since I was 11.
That is one right that we all do have.
I love when others attempt to determine what my "fair share" needs to be, or they assert it is not enough, so that others may pay nothing at all.
And all of those shareholders, bondholders, and corporations?
Guess what?
All taxed!
( and doubly so, i.e. personal and corporate!)
Without private sector employment and taxes, the government would have precious little to spend, on keeping us safe with critically needed defense spending, building common infrastructure etc.
Taxes and charity are two distinct things.
They should not be confused.
Marty