do you like your medical insurance?

[davidharvey]

If you if you don't like your health insurance plan, than you may have other options. Well, if you spend 9.5% or more of your household income on health insurance premiums, you can remove yourself from your employer’s plan and, taking your premium money with you, you can go purchase health insurance on the private insurance Exchange, where you would have a range of options and perhaps even access to cheaper prices (depending on how much you earn).

[GrimJack]

I equate credit card debt, being behind on your mortgage, and not having health insurance as the same thing: lack of personal responsibility. To me, there is no difference. Either you are responsible enough to take care of yourself and those around you, or you aren't. Medical coverage can be had via an HSA for the regular joe at a price everyone can afford. The exception to this is those with pre-existing conditions. I don't see where it is the governments role to provide medical insurance. They don't provide auto insurance, why should they medical? The gov'ts role is to make medical coverage available, which it currently is. At what cost, that's a different story. But why not let market factors force the change rather than gov't dictating it? Have we ever seen our government be efficient? I don't have a whole lot of confidence in our gov'ts ability to handle domestic issues, given the trillion dollar debt.

The government is not providing medical insurance, the government is providing access to medical insurance in a similar way that it provides access to auto insurance by mandating that everyone who drives must have insurance. If putting food on the table is a struggle who could afford medical coverage? You bring up mortgage, credit card debt and health insurance in the same breath but they are not even closely related. There are people who can not afford a mortgage.

[elfen lied]

In today's scenario Health insurance has become so important as there is so accidents and diseases that no one can predict. So I have to like whether I love it or not.