Originally Posted By DVC_dad I don't disagree with any of that except one word....lucky. Our situation concerning healthcare has nothing to do with luck. It comes from years of hard work. Which heads into another conversation of its own.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad And as for taxes, I rather like the term "redistribution of wealth," again a different philosophical conversation.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << Our situation concerning healthcare has nothing to do with luck. It comes from years of hard work. >> I have friends who work their tail off, but because of pre-existing conditions cannot get accepted for any health insurance plan that doesn't require them to essentially pay their entire paycheck in premiums for the coverage.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I understand what you meant. But you indicated that years of hard work was all it takes to get adequate health care. You forgot the part about also being lucky enough to not have any genetically induced pre-existing conditions. Your gene pool influences your ability to get adequate health care as well. Hard work is not enough.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 And I said "those lucky enough to have employer-sponsored healthcare," so I was obviously not referring to just you and your wife. And it increasingly IS becoming a matter of luck. You have people working for Company A, which still pays its workers' insurance premiums, and people who work for Company B, which no longer does. What did the people at company B do wrong? Not work hard enough? No. And don't assume that Company B is just not doing as well as Company A. Sometimes companies have dropped insurance coverage due to their own financial woes, but lately you've seen companies doing quite well noticing that other companies are dropping it, and dropping it themselves because they CAN. So what would you call that but some major bad luck for the Company B employees?
