In what way?
I don’t know a lot of people who actually only work 40 hr a week. Maybe teachers, bank personnel, dental receptionists?
Mitt Romney did specifically, but he’s a bit of a RINO. He was also a partner in Bain Capital, the primary investor on a very large ACA exchange so the self-service in his proposed policy was blatant.
The circle I run around in generally tends to be white collar and conservative, with most in some form of corporate management, legal or private business ownership. There tends to be mixed feeling on providing benefits. Corporations and large enough privately held companies do it because it becomes part of a total compensation package to entice and retain labor. Smaller companies do it for the same reason, but you also get a more personal element here as small companies with long term employees get to know one another and each others families well. So there is emotional pull. Then, there are some who don’t offer because it’s too expensive. Usually 1099 or contract models.
But nearly universally nobody, at least in my circle, believes they should be forced to pay for another’s health insurance. I agree.
I don’t think the complexity is intentionally confusing.
What it boils down to is that medical care is expensive as shit. Like 99% of the population can’t afford it, especially for chronic or major scenarios.
Insurance, in a very simplified description, is a collective account that can - and is tightly calculated off of risk in the account membership to stay fiscally balanced.
So if you let a lot of sick or otherwise high risk people in premiums go up to cover risk. If you let non-contributors in, or people below maintenance threshold premiums will also go up to offset their risk (which is up to 100% risk) et cetera.
And that’s it. You could pay out of pocket for everything if you chose.
I don’t know about a scam. You get what you agree to there. Work less. Start a company. Learn how to invest. Nobody is tricking you.
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I tend to not want any healthcare for myself because I didn’t go to any doctor for 25 years. I go for annual physical and 5 year exam and fixed my issues with exercise and diet.
But I tend to forget I sometimes drive, so I guess I really do need healthcare………..I was driving to my in laws last year and merging onto the next highway I ended up in a 1-lane road behind a flat bed full of logs. I eased back and saw the thing truck swearving, then it tipped over just as the lane joined the highway, I had to gun it to avoid anything that could have possibly happen. Thank goodness no one got hurt.
I hate driving.
I just want to be clear that healthcare and health insurance are two completely different things, and it’s telling that they’re used so interchangeably. In general, not just you.
Healthcare would be the emergency room/icu/surgeries/physical therapy et cetera following an accident with a logging truck. Would probably be a high six to seven figure total.
Health insurance is one option to pay for it. But it’s elective, fortunately mandated participation was reversed.
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Sounds typical. After 50 years old, I found that I have four doctors. And if I were involved in a severe traffic accident, I would likely find myself with two more doctors.
Preventive medicine is needed more in later life than in your youth. (Skin cancer, heart disease, colon cancer, etc)
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Crap, I meant to say health insurance.
To each their own. The thing about health is we all have it, until we don’t. Usually this translates to:
- skipping the bill (making you the scammer and contributor to increasing root cost)
- Being broke for the rest of your life
- Filing bankruptcy
But, it’s a free country.
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Is it a free country?
Are we allowed to just live in the wilderness and hunt and eat animals? And I don’t mean with a weapon, I’m talking the old way of chasing them.
So my real question is, is Uncle Sam coming for taxes if I’m living in the woods? Would a Will Tealse be looking to jail me?
Just curious cause I don’t know?
Who’s wilderness?
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Ah right, there is no free wilderness is there?
All land is owned by either a person or the state?
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Been that way for a long time.
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And even when it wasn’t, you had to constantly wonder when a random savage was going to come through and slit your throat in your sleep. Because remember the natives in north America had no concept of land ownership 
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I mean they technically did…. those strong enough to take / keep it had ownership. 
Pretty much like most of human history.
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That happens even today with ownership. People are still savage and take and kill others in their home.
This is also why there’s no excuse for ever letting your guard down. Someone should take watch.
So it’s not really a free country.
Of course I believe if you build a house, it’s yours.
Yeah you should train to defend it too. Reliance on protection fails at some point, the question is “when”. Then again your training can also fail.
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The Vanity Fair article has all the haterz frothing at the mouths, feeding on hatred. Megyn Kelly compares Vance to Clinton (the slickness, not the fuck everybody…), and it’s true:
*actual news from the VF article -Rubio said that if Vance runs, Rubio will be supporting Vance
Correct.
It should be, but its not.
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X is buzzing about a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting. If that pans out, I’m never watching mainstream news again except for entertainment purposes.
In other news, the Biden DOJ was told by the FBI! (Comey’s FBI, if I’m not mistaken) that it did not believe there was probable cause for the Mar-a-Lago raid, but the DOJ “judge shopped” (sound familiar?) and did the raid anyway. This, of course, is news that half the country will never see/hear.
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Don’t worry, Albanese already promised tougher gun laws, so that something like this will never happen again .
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