Who would consider a public health plan?

[Goldy1]

Me and dh are young and very healthy, but YES I would love to consider it. Why? Health care is important and who wouldn't I want a plan that would cover pre existing conditions? (insurance companies can refuse to cover charges based on ANYTHING to do with a pre existing dx and I herd they hire people just to fight charges) My body is not a car. I feel afraid to use my insurance due to getting any other new dx.

I love to work, love it. However, do I want to work 40 hours a week til I am 65 (some of my jobs in healthcare have required me to get there at 8 and punch out at 5 and with a half hour commute so I am gone 10 hours plus for one pay day)

[xpirtdesign]

I dont know about the public health plan i dont agree with it.

[Scanner]

I love to work, love it. However, do I want to work 40 hours a week til I am 65

I must admit that statement concerns me a bit, even as a moderate. No one would charge you have to work til 65. . .but you should have to pay your way til 65 (at least). If you retire early because of wealth accumulation, hey, more power to you.

If you just don't want to work because you don't think you should have to. . .I have a problem with that (would you clarify what you meant?).

I admit, that kind of statement makes me more sympathetic to the right on this issue and only reinforces my idea of consumption tax. You don't want to work - that's fine. But everything will have a 25% VAT/consumption tax on it to make you realize it costs people to bring things to you.

[getforfree]

I would go with the option that would cost me the least money. Some employers offer coverages that are still expencive, like 200-500/ month for a family. If I don't have coverage from work, or it's too expencive it's either no plan, or public healthcare plan. We don't go to doctors excep for check ups, and paying too much for a premium is not a good deal. When I had coverage from work that I paid for from every paycheck, I didn't even use it, because I didn't want to spend another 30 bucks at the doctors office, and none of us ever got sick.

[ktmarvels]

I would consider it, but I don't think we'd qualify as we aren't spending 11-12% of our income on health care. Although DH is military, so we may inadvertently be pushed over into it....haven't heard either way.

[disneysteve]

I would go with the option that would cost me the least money.

I think this is what it really comes down to for most people. They want the cheapest plan. If that is the public plan, that's the one they'll sign up for, even if it doesn't offer the best coverage. They'd rather have an affordable decent plan than a great plan that they can't afford.