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liberal N proud

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27. It still cost me when you get sick and don't have insurance

Reply to beevul (Reply #25)

Wed Oct 9, 2013, 06:23 PM

Oct 2013

Through higher medical expenses and consequently higher insurance premiums just like the uninsured motorist. That is how they do compare.

If you don't drive you don't figure in the equation but you are going to get sick, if not insured, those of us who are pay.

Medicare for all would be preferred, but that was killed by the right even before the teabaggers figured into the equation.

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Encountered a teabagger today [View all] liberal N proud Oct 2013 OP

I think that... MarianJack Oct 2013 #1

We'll done, make 'em THINK! Blue Owl Oct 2013 #2

+1 freshwest Oct 2013 #10

Tea Baggers are too stupid to put two and two together. Auntie Bush Oct 2013 #3

Stupid is the symptom. Hatred is the disease. n/t DebJ Oct 2013 #11

How many employees worked at the gas station? MiniMe Oct 2013 #4

Exactly. Only 3% of small businesss have more than 50 employees. Thor_MN Oct 2013 #9

This one is definitely in the 3% liberal N proud Oct 2013 #19

Thousands - it was a gas station affiliated with a big box store liberal N proud Oct 2013 #16

Republican's are all for personal responsibility when it doesn't include them Quixote1818 Oct 2013 #5

My wife encountered a couple in a McDonald's drive-through DissidentVoice Oct 2013 #6

Good for you. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #7

Cognitive dissonance. SheilaT Oct 2013 #8

They are locked in to an ideology. zeemike Oct 2013 #12

I tell them Nixon's original plan was to have EVERY EMPLOYER NATIONWIDE provide healthcare.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2013 #13

I seriously doubt that a gas station owner has enough employees to be forced to buy them JDPriestly Oct 2013 #14

This was a major chain box store who also has gas stations liberal N proud Oct 2013 #15

In which case... "So your company didn't squeeze it's employees before?" JHB Oct 2013 #17

I never have liked employer based health insurance. It ties B Calm Oct 2013 #18

Congratulations, you used an argument that's been debunked about a thousand times on DU alone Fumesucker Oct 2013 #20

We are eliminating republicans from our college! Mellow Drama Oct 2013 #21

you can't reason with them maryellen99 Oct 2013 #22

"you are required to buy car insurance, why not healthcare"... beevul Oct 2013 #23

In this state you are required to sign a form when you register your vehicle that you have insurance liberal N proud Oct 2013 #24

Its fairly strait forward. beevul Oct 2013 #25

It still cost me when you get sick and don't have insurance liberal N proud Oct 2013 #27

In the last 20 years, I have been sick numerous times without insurance. beevul Oct 2013 #28

And what happens when you get cancer? liberal N proud Oct 2013 #29

When I get cancer? beevul Oct 2013 #30

We shouldn't have to buy health insurance. obxhead Oct 2013 #26