Healthcare Questions?

Question

What do you say to someone who makes $25k per year and they can't afford insurance, or have been declined because they have pre-existing conditions?

This person has become stricken with diabetes and requires thousands of dollars of treatment which he obviously can't afford. He is now too sick to work and unable to provide for himself. What do we say to this person? Is it his fault? Are we only in this life to fend for ourselves? WWJD? Should we just let him die? Do we just hope a charity steps in and saves him? What if one doesn't? Is human life really that precious? Is money more important than a human life? How much is a human life worth? Where do we draw the line when a life is too costly($) to save?

Christians, is this acceptable? Doesn't God love all of us? If Jesus were here, would he create a miracle to save this man? Or does Jesus only create miracles if he feels you're deserving? Can saving a life be decided by wealth and work ethic?

We can't rely on charity organizations to provide for these people. You do realize that these charity organizations have existed for years and people are still dying......with health insurance.

FYI, I worked for a health insurance company for almost a year and a half. Those companies are about profits, just like any other companies. They are designed to take in more then they pay out. So if that means declining coverage when their policy states it's covered, then so be it. There is so much grey area in the descriptions of the health insurance coverages that you could almost decline every single claim received.

It's easy to oppose this issue when you're wealthy but see what happens when your buddy loses his kid because he couldn't afford treatment. You will be forever changed once this issue hits home.

MSI_Cord: This person would not be covered under Medicaid.

"People served by Medicaid are eligible low-income parents, children, seniors, and people with disabilities"

This person is a single male in his 30s.

Answer 1

There are charitable organizations that will help this person, as well as several government programs that already exist.

Further, it is illegal for a hospital to turn someone away regardless of whether they can pay or not. All he has to do is walk in.

Answer 2

I do admire your your tenacity and politeness in dealing with the good little American Christians .I long ago surveyed their national ethos and concluded based on the overwhelming evidence that Americans are profoundly amoral and merely use and abuse my faith to serve it's own banal econom ic/sociological advantages .

While all western democracies have long ago decided based UPON the JUDEO-CHRISTIAN moral/ethical code that health care is not a friggin PROFIT center but rather a basic human need /requirement period , and proceeded to impliment universal health care to all their citizens,the monumentally hypocritical American Christians gave their poor and working poor the not too Christian finger and said,sod off .

Their are some 47 million Americans without health care coverage and another 40 million with what is considered inadequate health care coverage.

That means over 30 % of Americans have little to no health care.

These good little Christian Americans have spit in the face of all mainstream Christian Churches (including Bush's own Methodist Church) that have condemned Bush's crime against humanity in Iraq as a moral abomination and un-equivicably ANTI-CHRISTIAN.

This twisted war mongering Christian fundamentalist President chose to wage an ILLEGAL war based upon pack of horribly NON-CHRISTIAN filthy lies that has so far resulted in the slaughter of over 400,000 innocent Iraqi civilians which these sick American Christians refer to not as humans but "COLATERAL DAMAGE".

The URL posted gives a very few of many not too Christian atrocities these good little american Christians have done in the world in the name of MY Christ or at least this is what the war monger in the Oval Office tells us.

Answer 3

This person will require state and or federal assistance.

He can't get insurance from the commercial providers because he would damage their profits, so he will wind up getting public assistance which many define as "socialized medicine."

You and I will have to pay for his care because the Insurance company refused to do what they are in business to do.

The only reason we will have, by necessity, a system of state and federal health care is because we have it already.

The state/federal health care system is required because the commercial providers fail in their responsibility to their customers so as to appease their share holders.

Answer 4

This man is already covered by our government under a program called Medicaid. There is no need for a system of universal healthcare for this man to get coverage.

Answer 5

"Life is tough. If you want more than what $25K provides, go and earn more. Work harder or offer more to employers. You could also do what many have done and start your own business."

In the adult world, you have to live within your means. I am tired of people who take more from the system than they put in.

Or you could do what I do and push elected officials to change the laws that make insurance so high.

What you do is try to emotionalize the issue. It is unfair to take from me to give to someone else.

Answer 6

Diabetes? Pre-existing conditions? I'd say there's fairly decent odds that its undiagnosed Celiac's disease or similar auto-immune enteropathy. What's the family history?

An ounce of prevention is worth 10 pounds of the cure - unfortunately the cure is more profitable regardless of if its privately run or government run.

Answer 7

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