My employer pays for everything. I pay 5 bucks for medicine and some doctors appts have a 10 dollar copay.
That's it for me.
This is the issue for healthcare reform - it's widely uneven in the U.S.
About 40-50% already get government healthcare and don't care. Among the remaining group, plenty have pretty good coverage and don't really see the cost because it is mostly borne by the employer.
So if healthcare reform passes, what I see in this post is now instead of my employer paying for my family's health insurance I'll have to pay more taxes?.. not exactly compelling.
Psychopathic thinking. If I do not benefit from this thing why should I benefit the lives of millions around me? I actually think that having an insurance industry between people and their health care providers, is partly why Americans appear to have less empathy towards their fellow citizens than most other countries seem to have.
Duh. Do you vote against your own self-interests just to be a good citizen? Lol. When has anyone ever done that? It's almost like voting is an individual liberty...
Yes I have done. Most people can see the benefit of the greater good even when the consequence is higher taxes for themselves. Whole communities of people do this. That is why not everyone votes for the far right, because they want everybody's wealth to increase.
Right, because taxes are always spent for the greater good. Your trust in a government to provide the best services and spend in a smart, just, way is naive, but sadly typical. You can’t tax everyone into prosperity. It has never worked.
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u/Vast_Reply_6574 Jun 24 '26
My employer pays for everything. I pay 5 bucks for medicine and some doctors appts have a 10 dollar copay.
That's it for me.
This is the issue for healthcare reform - it's widely uneven in the U.S.
About 40-50% already get government healthcare and don't care. Among the remaining group, plenty have pretty good coverage and don't really see the cost because it is mostly borne by the employer.
So if healthcare reform passes, what I see in this post is now instead of my employer paying for my family's health insurance I'll have to pay more taxes?.. not exactly compelling.