Quote Originally Posted by bu villain View Post
There will always be bankruptcy for medical payments of course. The question is what is a reasonable level? If 99% of the population was going bankrupt for this reason, it would seem something is wrong that needs to be addressed. Of course percentages are no where near 99% but you get my point hopefully. What is an acceptable rate?
That would be great but we don't live in that world so unless you are happy with people not paying their medical bills at the rate they are now, and jacking hospital costs up, just telling someone to be more responsible won't solve the problem.
Once again, this would be ideal but teaching an entire nation of people (many recent immigrants) to share your morals is going to be difficult and take a lot of time.
The rate is not the issue. People only will go into bankruptcy from major medical costs, not preventive care or general healthcare costs, and those that do go bankrupt from major medical costs can rebuild from bankruptcy, so it is not an issue to focus on. The point is that people should plan to deal with their own non-emergency care - this is personal responsibility.
Not taking personal responsibility for your own general healthcare is tantamount to making yourself a ward of the state. What's next, state provided housing, and we work state sponsored jobs? Endenture ourselves to the government? No thanks. The bottom line is that we do have to teach personal responsibility to millions - as our ancestors did. If you don't understand this, you should go back to school and study history.