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What’s scarier: losing health insurance or terrorists?
Posted By katie allison granju
More Americans fear losing their health insurance than they do a terrorist attack:
The most intractable policy problem is not, fundamentally, the 47 million uninsured or the fact that insurers have a business model right out of Dickens. It’s cost. In 2006, the average family policy cost $13,600. This is why one out of six Americans are uninsured; they can’t afford the premiums. An October 2007 Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that more Americans were “very worried” about being priced out of their health insurance than feared losing their job, their house, or being in a terrorist attack. And with good reason: Premiums have gone up 98 percent since 2000. Wages have not.
May 21st, 2008
That’s true. My company pays a fortune for my health insurance benefits and my part of it each month is another fortune.
In this election year, however, we need to examine the view shared by the far-right wing Republicans and Christian fundmentalist toadies:
“Health care is not a right. It is a privilige. The only people who should have it are those who can afford to pay for it.”
Funny, I never heard anything even remotely like that in my Sunday schools or churches. I could have just missed it, but Ithink it much more likely that 10,000 pastors have SOLD OUT to Satan and his political minions.
Contrast the odds of needing expensive medical care verses the odds of being involved in a terrorist attack. That would explain why.