Socialized Health Care in the USA

[kandrathe]

This joke makes no sense whatsoever, or is that the point?

It's the whole redistribution of wealth thing. The US takes money from the successful working class to give to the welfare and less successful working class. The wealthy class really never need to work, so they only pay taxes on their declared income within the US, which might occur if they happen to need to sell something. When you are really wealthy, you usually only need to pay taxes when you want to pay taxes. This is why I prefer to describe the US as broken up into the welfare class, the working class, and wealthy class.

I see it more like a slave galley with three decks. The middle tier does all the rowing and they don't have much voice in how hard or where they are going, the lower level lives by the trickle down theory, they don't have to work, but exist on the dropped crusts of bread from above, and the upper tier gets to sit in the sun and fresh air and get carted around for free.

The joke then goes on to say that the US is now looking to pay for health care for those who don't have it by taking it away from those who already have it (both private insurance and Medicare). Which is what the current house bill proposes to do, and replacing it with another "well" run government plan which you will be forced onto if you should ever find your private insurance lapses (such as if you are out of work for more than a few months and fall off of COBRA). It also has a provision that stipulates that once you are on the public plan, you can no longer opt for a private plan, so it's designed as a one way road to socialism.

Wealthy people sometimes hold actual jobs because they want something to do with their lives, but they really wouldn't need to do it. Like Warren Buffet, he earns about $100K from BH, but he's worth some where around $44 billion. He's 79 years old, so if he lives to 100 he could spend $5.74 million per day for the remainder of his life. He also still gets issued a Social Security check from the government and is eligible for reduced cost medical care under the Medicare program.

So, there are many people who choose not to pay $6000 per year for normal health insurance, and instead carry a catastrophic health insurance with somewhere around a $5000 deductible. Meaning, if they don't get sick they save the difference.