QUOTE(Kiln @ Oct 3 2013, 08:45 PM)
I feel that the government stepping in and forcing me to pay for health coverage is unfair. This is not "free" healthcare as some have been lead to believe. It is mandatory health care that you have to pay for that the government is forcing onto people.
So you'd rather people die or be forced into massive debts for the sake of survival due to the fact that their insurance will refuse to cover them and their healthcare costs, and believe that this is somehow better than the new system because the new system has Government in it? Because if my family had lived in the USA, I can assure you that we would either be living in complete poverty paying for healthcare costs or my sister would be dead. We were lucky, we were in the UK and we had the NHS to help us, but if it were in the US, no company would insure my sister (pre-existing medical condition, and an expensive as hell one that's lasted the better part of fifteen years, and I highly doubt a work healthcare policy would cover her unless it was really high-up) and we would be forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars needed for daily treatment she needs
to stay alive.
My family was lucky; we lived in the UK. The government helped us, and by god we needed the government to help us because we could not have afforded her treatment otherwise, and no insurance company would want to insure us. But there are families in the USA who, obviously, don't have the safety net of the NHS. They won't be insured, the companies they work for are unlikely to cover them (and if they lose their job then they're doubly screwed over in this economy) and they're either going to be forced into debt or be forced to stop seeking treatment. This new legislation forces insurance companies to insure, it drives down insurance premiums and it means people who need cover are covered. If you say that this is wrong, that these people for some reason deserve to suffer or die because of the abstract principle of 'No Government', that my family going into poverty or my sister dying instead of using the NHS is somehow right then...
I can't express how that makes me feel and stay within the forum guidelines, but I assure you that the sentiment is not at all pleasant.