Why are you lying? I never said that. Is it so hard to argue the merits of what I actually said that you have to make stuff up?
"I was a poor-as-dirt college student that didn't have the money to shell out the exorbitant fees the health care companies were asking so that I could have crap coverage."
You could have had it, but you didn't want to pay for it.
People find money for what they value. You could have chosen to work 3 jobs to pay for health insurance or self-insure, but you didn't. You went to college instead. You chose what was more important to you. I've met many people who "can't afford" heating oil, but they live in houses that have no mortgage, go on vacations. . . People find money for what they want to find money for.
It's fine for doctors to making a living and hospitals to pay overhead, but it doesn't have to be on the backs of the sick.
This has to be the funniest and oddest statement in the thread. Of course doctors make a living from sick people! Car mechanics make a living from people with "sick" cars. Grocery stores make a living "on the backs of" hungry people. . .
The indoctrination against work, money and profit being evil is so widespread and accepted, we don't even realize how silly we sound when condemning what God has called good: work.
Do you understand how insurance works? Groups of people enter into a health care plan together. The more people there are, the lower the costs because risk is spread around. So if I'm someone who is risky because of certain conditions, my bills will be lower because I'm grouped together with healthier people who are less risky to cover.
I remember the very high price I paid for auto insurance when I was 16. The rate barely went down until I was 25! The reason I paid more was that I was in a pool of people with similar risk factors. They din't group high-risk drivers with low-rosh drivers in order to make the cost artificial lower for the high-risk driver (me) even though I would have loved it if they did, I understand how fundamentally unjust it would have been if they had.
The unjustly lower rate you seek is literally demanding that I pay a higher rate so that you can pay a lower rate, only you want the government to take the money from my wallet for you.
You say you've have a lot of surgeries and procedures, and I don't doubt that. What I doubt is whether you've actually experienced what it's like for someone with a pre-existing condition. Generally speaking, sick people who have navigated the insurance system aren't those who condescend to others about "others paying for your health insurance".
I've been denied insurance. I've had riders on policies because of preexisting conditions, but I'm still a man. I'm responsible for myself. I'm not a burden for my neighbor while I can still do some type of work.
Charity is fine. In fact I give much money to the truly poor, which means I give a lot outside of the US, where truly poor people can be found; however income redistribution is not the same thing as charitable giving. One is voluntary, and it is directed at the truly helpless, while the other forcibly takes from one person to give to another, which is nothing less than theft.
