Health Insurance in America

Health insurance is extremely complicated in the US. The Republicans deem access to health insurance / medical care a privilege.

The Republican stance:

• Medical coverage for all is unaffordable.
• Employers shouldn’t be forced to provide medical coverage.
• Taxes cannot be implemented to pay for medical coverage
• People shouldn’t have to pay for medical insurance if they don’t need it, much like car insurance.
• If a person needs medical care, they can go to the emergency room.
• Defund Medicaid or make people qualify with a job or school if it is funded.
• Many Medicaid recipients play video games in their parents’ basement.
• If on Medicaid, get a job.
  • If employed by one of the 49% of private sector businesses in the US however, the likelihood of having affordable health insurance is slim.

Questions:

• Should a person go broke due to medical bills should they or a family member get sick?
• Why wouldn’t all employers want their employees to have access to affordable medical care?
  • A healthy stress-free employee is a productive employee
  • Do employers really want to deal with group insurance plans every year?
• Is a company that doesn’t offer a living wage and benefits really a viable employer?
  • Are these employers really “job creators”?

There is no downside to medical coverage for all.

• When everyone participates, and everyone must, the average cost decreases.
• A healthy, secure population is a happy, productive population.

Why, oh why, do the Republicans fight so hard against affordable medical care for all?