Comments on: Whole Paycheck Boycott http://lumpenmagazine.com/2009/08/21/whole-paycheck-boycott/ SAME AS IT EVER WAS Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:54:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: TS http://lumpenmagazine.com/2009/08/21/whole-paycheck-boycott/#comment-4 TS Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:58:45 +0000 http://lumpenmagazine.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-4 "Self-responsibility" is fine, but only if you're rich enough to afford medical care. How do you pay for, say, that $400,000 heart bypass if you're not rich? Oh, sure, you can go to County, but that's not self-responsibility. County is funded by taxes. Your choices are: (1) be rich enough to afford your health care, or (2) let an insurance company decide what health care you get, or (3) let the government decide what health care you get. At least with (3), we have some input in what gets done. If you think you have input with (2), you obviously don't have health insurance. “Self-responsibility” is fine, but only if you’re rich enough to afford medical care. How do you pay for, say, that $400,000 heart bypass if you’re not rich?

Oh, sure, you can go to County, but that’s not self-responsibility. County is funded by taxes.

Your choices are: (1) be rich enough to afford your health care, or (2) let an insurance company decide what health care you get, or (3) let the government decide what health care you get.

At least with (3), we have some input in what gets done.

If you think you have input with (2), you obviously don’t have health insurance.

]]> By: merle http://lumpenmagazine.com/2009/08/21/whole-paycheck-boycott/#comment-2 merle Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:00:03 +0000 http://lumpenmagazine.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-2 the whole foods guy is a douchebag, but do you really want the govt. in your bank account, and mandating insurance on people who can't afford it? and letting the insurance comapnies and the pharmaceutical companies wring the terms and policies of your health care? maybe self-responsibility is the best alternative. the whole foods guy is a douchebag, but do you really want the govt. in your bank account, and mandating insurance on people who can’t afford it?

and letting the insurance comapnies and the pharmaceutical companies wring the terms and policies of your health care?

maybe self-responsibility is the best alternative.

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