Healthcare

[lsanderson]

There is a class war going on, but it's not the DFH against the HaveMores. It's the HaveMores against the rest of us. The standard healthcare debate begins with "If everybody just used less healthcare, it would cost less." and then ten stories are trotted out about union members that use the emergency rooms for free, or illegal aliens that use emergency rooms for free, and how if everybody had to pay for their own emergency room visit, they wouldn't go to the emergency room -- they'd just die quietly over there in the corner where the street cleaners would find them in the morning. If grandma wouldn't take those seven, eight, nine or ten pills twelve times a day, but would just go off quietly to her coffin, why healthcare costs would go down! If you all just used less healthcare, costs would go down! Insurance rates wouldn't, but that's a whole different issue. If you have to pay more for your prescriptions, you'll take less! The more you pay, the less you'll take. Of course, eventually, if you take few enough and use less and less healthcare, you may die, but think of the money you'll save the rest of us! (Of course, the HaveMores want it both ways -- if you suggest that grandma needs end of life counseling, then that's a communist plot. If, on the other hand, you make her doctor visits and prescriptions too expensive for her to afford and she dies twenty years too young, that's just the free market system, and if, if only, she'd turned more tricks while she was young or married better, then she'd still be alive today.)

So, where ever you are, use less healthcare today. Somewhere, there's a rich Republican that needs more.