How many will do this? Healthcare

Of course, I believe forcing someone to buy insurance and fining them if they don't is unconstitutional.

Having said that, if it becomes law, the fine,at 2 1/2 % of gross income, is much too low , and millions of the young and healthy that will be needed in such a plan to keep it solvent, will do just that...pay the fine.

And laugh at the rest of us as we struggle to pay the increasing premiums and copays.

 

Yes, but under the "new" plan you don't have to purchase insurance until you need it. They cannot turn you down for preexisting conditions. So, all you have to do is apply when the cancer diagnois comes down and not before then. Or the spouse can do it for you as the ambulance is rushing you to the hospital. This plan is stupid and will be the demise of traditional insurance who in no way can sustain their profitability accepting people with preexisting conditions.

 

I had health insurance (either personal pay or employer provided) until the beginning of 2006, at age 58. In all those years, I never used it, until the last 5 years of employment when the plan had a co-pay for annual visits, some lab co-pays..... and supposedly a medication discount... which I found to be worthless but a way to keep the insurance company informed of any prescribed medications... even though I paid full price.

The last 18 months was the bonus when I first met a medical deductible... however, as I was unemployed, and cannibalized my retirement to pay my COBRA, and had cancer, surgery and treatments.... all paid for as I had kept my insurance. But, lest anyone think I was smart in this deal.... no way. I've never been keen on seeing a doctor without cause... and have trusted God to provide for my wellness and to make me conscious of safety and good health practices. When I was unemployed and saw that I could not draw unemployment... and debated over whether to cannibalize beyond mere survival on savings to keep my COBRA, I prayed for guidance and then followed what seemed right.... the agreement of faith and 'my gut'. Ha.... ha!

Who knows..... maybe I could have dropped my COBRA and maybe God would have prevented my cancer, which was asymptomatic and diagnosed 5 months into the plan? What he did do was enabled me to live on my savings and stretch it so that I did not draw any public assistance... not even food stamps... and roof my house after a storm damaged my uninsured house..... until I made it to my widow's social security. My husband died 15 years ago. He would have been able to draw his full social security by now had he lived.

I did not know the markets.... but God knew my needs. It seems that by trusting him and stretching my leanness... those withdrawals which I made at irregular times and in various measures, were just right with the market timing even though I had tax penalty's to pay on an income for which there was no standard deduction.

Now I hear social security is broke, and a part of me entertains my own responsibility for drawing mine against the demands on the public purse. But I look back on years where I thought this day might come.... and where I tried to encourage others to think beyond these same programs which were used to manipulate their political fears and voting choices, and how I tried to save on a very modest income: And then I think of how the Israel 'children' were led out of Egypt by God, and instructed, before their departure, to 'borrow' from their slave-masters and mistresses the Egyptian wealth of goods and jewelry to take on their journey: It was the wages of their enslavement of former times: For some it was a snare which built the idol in the wilderness... and they and it were destroyed.... but for others it was a joyous offering which could serve no other purpose but to adorn that wonderful tabernacle which reminded them of God's presence.

I don't know what plans God has for us in all of this... but, I do believe we can trust Him that His timing is perfect. We may suffer because social security is withdrawn or cut back,..... we cannot know... but his will is perfect concerning us. We may see the benefit and use of this health care program.... or suffer rationed care and have to minister to those who may be hurt by coerced abortions, or delays in medical care, or faulty diagnosis and treatments and medication errors by overworked and under trained practitioners. The true light is Jesus, and any other is an imitation. If He is in us.... and we abide in Him.... he will dispell the darkness though it deepens around us. The darkness in this world cannot overcome His power within us..... though our faith may target us for suffering, and there may be yet many which the Father calls, and many of us who can still be used to the glory of his eternal kingdom.

These things which trouble us so deeply, do so because we have little power left to slow the progress of the troubles we see coming in however long the future may be, and because we have no power over the wills of others to hasten their conversion or to save them. We cannot know how long God will grant us opportunity to witness to others and tell them about Jesus. Life, itself, is short when one looks back over the many years now passed, so, it matters not if 'the end' is near or far distant: We have not been good stewards of the garden which God entrusted to us.... and too many trees have grown crooked and weak and deformed with the sickness of this world cankered in their good wood: the fences were not repaired in the seasons of small decay, and now they crumble too many to build up; we have taken on the customs of this world and treat each other unkindly. It is hard to pray 'God have mercy on us' when I must first pray with utmost humility 'God, please have mercy on me.' Knowing that he already has and his promise is already fulfilled...... still ..... I see this as 'now' when God sees it as 'done', I see it as unfinished .....where God said 'it is finished' ..... I view the future as 'tomorrow' but God sees everything as completed and past and no more tomorrows but only today....forever today, a view I cannot comprehend.
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Back to the OP: No doubt there will be many who try to make the best of what comes and hope they figure it out right. Man has a plan..... and often shuts God out. God has a plan....... and draws folks to Him. Each plan goes in different directions. I'll always be secure, even though my feelings may say not if I can keep my eyes fixed on the captain of my soul and keep my mind fixed on him.

 

what happens one of this guys kids get real sick, they use up all that extra money they've saved and everyhing they have and still do not have enough to take care of his child, this is foolish, he can afford insurance and has it availabel to him and decided his family does not need health care.

 

From 1 Timothy 5:8 - "But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, especially for the members of his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel ."

 

Sounds like a good plan to me. That's what I'll probably do especially if the premiums continue to rise.

 

when I was reading the OP, I thought good luck to ya! My youngest was very active and I can't count the number of times we took the child to the emergency room for a bone to be set or a gash to be cleaned out and stitched up. And those are rather routine compared to what could have happened. Still - much more than $100 out of pocket expense even with insurance.

I think it's foolish, but I'm also not in the business of telling people what they do and don't have to buy.