I work full time and i get full benefits through my job. It doesn't affect me whatsoever. But I'm one of those people who gives a ******* about their fellow citizens. Silly, i know.
We don't have single payer or a national healthcare system or co-op here, so the way that it works for you up there couldn't work down here, sadly.
Oddly, looking at the federal taxes that we do pay it would seem that there should be plenty available for a system like yours up there if our medical industry was similar to yours, which it's not. But then, we've had it drilled into our minds down here by certain parties that your system up there is a failure and that our more expensive, lesser inclusive, profit-based system is far superior.
Years ago, living in Europe, it seemed to me that what was available there, and paid for through taxes, worked pretty well. But i've known folks here in the U.S. who have informed that my thinking on the matter is incorrect and that it doesn't work very well. As long as folks really believe this to be the case then we're pretty much resigned to going back to what we had before Obamacare. If i recall, it was nothing. The incumbent party once had a proposal which they had thought might work for us, but it was actually very similar to Obamacare and so, unless they change the name, it certainly won't work.
So, Sweet4chocolate...you might lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it *******.
