Reply #6: While Making Multi-Million Dollar Salaries

[iamjoy]

I might add. Yet somehow people are mad at those "lazy" poor people taking advantage of the system.

One of my friends posted to FB a letter from a doctor about a Medicaid patient who smoked, ate fast food, had tattoos, etc and how that was the problem with healthcare, we needed to reform attitudes. I responded that while there are people who milk the system, there are also people who just make bad decisions (having never been equipped otherwise) Finally, any one of us could end up in the position of needing public assistance - it only takes getting sick meaning you lose your job and thus, your insurance.

If I see it again, I will post something about how the real problem with healthcare in this country is indeed a sense of entitlement - CEOs of insurance companies and hospitals who feel they deserve to make millions of dollars a year while the average cost of a family insurance policy is equal to 25% of the average family income.

Oh, and since Medicare is funded by taxpayer dollars, the money of working Americans is going into the pockets of these multi-millionaires.