There has never been a year of my life in which I've consumed less than a thousand dollars of health care. And most years have been significantly more. My medications are over $200/month alone. And have been for most of my life.
In addition, I've never earned more than $10,000 in a single year.
Under your plan, I'd be dead.
Now, this may or may not be a downside of your plan from your point of view, but I assure you that, from my point of view, it is. I'm afraid that I cannot support any plan under which I'm dead.
Another assumption that you are making is that I have the ability to make better decisions about my own health care than a pencil pusher in the government or at some insurance agency.
Why? Actual assignment of health care risk is a significantly complex technical specialty. Why would I be better at it than someone trained in it?
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Date: 2006-03-09 01:00 am (UTC)First is that "young equals healthy."
There has never been a year of my life in which I've consumed less than a thousand dollars of health care. And most years have been significantly more. My medications are over $200/month alone. And have been for most of my life.
In addition, I've never earned more than $10,000 in a single year.
Under your plan, I'd be dead.
Now, this may or may not be a downside of your plan from your point of view, but I assure you that, from my point of view, it is. I'm afraid that I cannot support any plan under which I'm dead.
Another assumption that you are making is that I have the ability to make better decisions about my own health care than a pencil pusher in the government or at some insurance agency.
Why? Actual assignment of health care risk is a significantly complex technical specialty. Why would I be better at it than someone trained in it?