Then go get your healthcare in those countries

My children qualify for medi-cal under the new ACA guidelines and I’m so grateful! If this ever happened to you and you or your children ever needed medi-cal, I would be happy that my tax dollars would help. It’s called not being a sociopath.

Health is a real wealth. And far preferable to disease and injury. We’re all better off with health. We all need access to care when we need it. It’s about being a human, not whether you can afford it. This country and society live in a lot of disease, and the insurance protocol for going to the doctor makes a lot of sense. Just not a lot of health.

And as far as immigrants using medical services, many pay for them, also. Many work and pay for them. If the system were less abusive, discrimination would end.

Just think about it, maybe increasing numbers of people wouldn’t be getting whooping cough now if everyone could just go to the doctor right away if they developed a persistent cough. Especially whoever brought it into the locality in the first place. Whether they could afford it or not.

Thanks for your consideration, and thought provoking blog.

Your statement, “Medicare recipients were lumped into the request, but are different because they paid into the system for decades with Social Security taxes – California’s eight million Medi-Cal recipients did not, do not, and apparently will not,” is very asinine and shows just how uninformed you are about people like me.

I worked for 18 years and put into the system; I am working now; I will be working in the very near future. I am working hard to get through school quickly while dealing with a two-hour round trip commute, keeping a house, taking care of my kids, and working two jobs. When you figure the hours that I put in for just school, work, and my commute, my work week totals 69 hours. This doesn’t even include extra things that are required for my classes such as internships and having to go do other outside assignments which take up my “extra” time nor does this include maintaining the house and yard and everything else that we all need to do in our daily lives. While doing all of this, I am also maintaining a 3.855 GPA and have been invited into an honor society, two of them actually.

I am not complaining about my situation. I could have easily sat on my rear end collecting cash aid and whatever else I could, but that is not in my character. I know I’m not the only person on Medi-Cal with this mindset. I know this because there are many like me on the college campuses. We want to work, we just need help for a little while until we can get ourselves there.

So, please, next time you want to make a blanket statement like that, think twice and consider that you may not know everything you need to know in order to say such a thing. Try doing a little more research on the demographics and maybe even interview some Medi-Cal recipients.

I guess that’s why the canadians overwhelmingly prefer their HC system over ours.

The problem with our HC system is that it was designed to benefit the corporations and not the citizens.

That’s why we spend 18% of our GDP on HC while all the socialized nations spend 9%-11% on HC and produce better outcomes.

Please don’t ignore the raw data when formulating your opinions.

What about asking payment for saving lives.

Copys and premiums before fast food….hmmmm!