If the wealthy have health insurance and the poor have Medicaid who are the ones complaining?

Question

about no health insurance?
Could it be the WORKING people that are losing their health insurance?

Answer 1

The 40 million people who don't have health insurance. At my previous employer I made just enough money to cover the rent, bills, and the other necessities that I'm accustomed to having. When health insurance went from $20 a paycheck to $80 a paycheck I could no longer afford it. So honey to answer your question, YES it is the working people losing their coverage and that's really bad when you feel sick but you can't afford to go to the doctor.

Answer 2

Health insurance has nothing to do with being a feminist. In order to get Medicaid here, you have to be a senior citizen or pregnant. Other than that, all it covers is like birth control and getting your tubes tied. That is it. There is no health coverage here. You have to get in with a large company with a high salary in order to be offered insurance. There are VERY few businesses here that offer health insurance to their employees. We do not offer health insurance to our employees bc it is so expensive, and we only have part time workers. We have been looking into getting health insurance ourselves, and it is outrageous. It is cheaper just paying full price for the dr and our medications. You are exactly right, she has no sense of equality. Just bc she can afford to do it and has a great job that offers it, definitely does not imply that anyone can do it. These days it is hard to make ends meet, and we own a business. I can't imagine the ones who make 100-200 per week and live off of that. She is not being a feminist by saying these things, she is just being a person with no sense of equality who has no idea about the things that go on with low income people. She is ignorant to the fact that some try their best and do everything they possibly can with no avail. She has never been in the position to live like that, so she cannot understand it.

Answer 3

Approximately 47 million Americans have no health insurance. Some people work for employers who don’t offer health insurance or don’t offer insurance for certain categories of employee—temporary, seasonal, part-time, etc.

Many people who make too much money to be eligible for government programs such as Medicaid simply can’t afford the premiums. Health insurance premiums are quite expensive and less expensive policies have very high deductibles.

Complaints also come from people who have insurance but who are underinsured or who are paying high premium rates.

Answer 4

You should have an National Health Service like we have in the UK. Its bliss.

My other half works but makes only enough to cover our basic necessities and I'm at home with our baby son. Theres no way we could pay for health insurance. Yet anytime any of us are ill we go straight to the doctor and get treated. When I had my baby I got excellent care. No question of price.

Noone *has* to use the NHS, the rich and affluent are still free to pay for their "choice of healthcare providers" (we have a private system too to cater for the spoiled wealthy types) or get insurance, while everyone who wants it can get help on the NHS.

We're so lucky to have this system, it shocks me that in America there are people who are ill but can't go to the doctor. Doesn't seem right in a civillised country in 2007.

Answer 5

I suggest that you try this web site where you can compare rates from different companies: http://HELP-INSURE.NET/index.html?src=2YAcamOe8o6n

RE :If the wealthy have health insurance and the poor have Medicaid who are the ones complaining?
about no health insurance?
Could it be the WORKING people that are losing their health insurance?
1 following 14 answers

Answer 6

The people complaining, are those with no say so, about health care policy.

Thats why they want government controlled health care, so they can decide what is good and what is bad.

Did you know congress made it illegal, for small business's around the country, to go in together to buy health insurance, where they could use thier numbers to get insurance at the discounted rates the large corporations get.

Congress also made it illegal for individuals to do the same.

They made all those small business's and all those individuals have to go purchase health insurance separtely, so the cost is to high.

Of course, i'll never understand, why people think it is ok, for someone to have to spend $1,400 a month on a small one bedroom apartment, but then complain that they have to spend $300.00 a month on health insurance.

We should just thank goodness that the percentage of uninsured isn't as high now, as it was back in the 90's when Clinton set the record for the highest percentage of uninsured Americans ever recorded at 16.3% back in 1998. And that was after him taking office with the lowest percentage of uninsured ever recorded at 12.9%.

Answer 7

As I have said before, at my last company, excellent insurance was offered for a $30 per month employee contribution. Many under the age of 30 went without because it was too expensive and they didn't need it. THEN when they get sick they go to an ER and skip on the bill. One guy made $50K per year but still thought $30 monthly was way to much.

Answer 8

The 47 million people without any.

Answer 9

The majority of uninsured people are between the ages of 18 and 30. The underemployed or people with no benefits that are no longer covered by their parents

Answer 10

More importantly, the "wealthy", "middle class" and in fact ALL taxpayers are paying for Medicaid, AND indigent care, Currently. This is the most expensive and ludricrous situation we could devise.

Everyone would be much better off if we didn't have so many replicate services, with the sickest and most infirm usually on the public dole in the first place.