Why do so many people feel entitled to free health care?
July 28, 2012 by Foot Health
Filed under Foot Health FAQ
Question by gutterslut13: Why do so many people feel entitled to free health care?
Why should someone have to foot the bill for someone else’s medical expenses?
Oh! Did I break your little bleeding hearts?
Social Security isn’t free health care. If you have a job you pay for it. If you paid for it, you should get it.
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Answer by Dillon H
I’m betting you didn’t complain when your tax money was being given straight to Halliburton instead…..you fat zero.
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I dunno.
Why do so many people feel entitled to free Fire protection services, Police, Schools…??
Jeez, these moochers!
Why do so many people feel entitled to free whatever (housing, utilities, food, etc)? When Social Security was first introduced by FDR, it only took 1 generation for the children of receipts to think they were owed it. We’re many, many generations later. People haven’t been talk the importance of working for what you have, self pride.
Yeah, let them all die a horrible death in the poor house just like in Victorian times.
Wow, are you in the US? You really don’t get the whole socialised health care thing, do you?
Obama is dragging the USA into the 21st century…albeit with a few of their citizens kicking and screaming!
That’s easy. Many people believe that we have a right to be healthy, and in our legal framework, rights are guaranteed by the government.
Why do I foot the bill for the modern infrastructure, education systems, and communities that support you in being able to enjoy whatever it is you do so that people like you who believe they did everything on their own can complain about having to foot the bill?
What’s the alternative? Should we let people who get sick and don’t have money die in the streets of curable affections? No other civilized countries do that. Why should we?
Where do you get your health insurance? If you get it from your job, picture what would happen if you got really sick and couldn’t work for several months. Do you think they would keep you on staff? If they didn’t, how long do you think you could hold out paying cobra. Eventually, you would become one of those uninsured money grubbers that you hate.
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Ignorance:
“When Social Security was first introduced by FDR, it only took 1 generation for the children of receipts to think they were owed it.”
You are owed it. You pay a social security tax. The money you get back is the money you paid into it. I have a 92 year-old grandmother who lives on social security. My grandfather worked every day of his life in a factory except 1944-1945 when he was killing Nazis in the Arden. Should my grandmother pay for her own health care?
because free stuff is AWESOME.
I would like to think that most people like myself dont feel entitled to free health care. I work hard for a living and my union bargained for it. I believe the largest portion of the people your asking about probably already get free health care along with food housing and everything else they can suck of my tax dollars………
But you’re footing the bill for other people’s medical expenses anyway, as some people already get free or subsidised medical treatment.
At the end of the day, in the long run you would all be saving yourselves money. Poor health affects industry, increases the number of people on the dole, and if people cannot afford treatment, they will leave it until the last possible minute, by when it will be even more expensive to cure/treat. Perhaps people feel entitled to free health care because they have a right to a good quality of life, which includes being healthy. If you cannot afford the (ridiculously high) cost of treatment, yet you have paid all your taxes and so on to the people who are supposed to guarantee all your rights, you’d feel entitled to get something back from that.
Of course, making health care less expensive (not free) would also reduce the number of people calling for universal health care. Currently it is stupidly expensive to get treatment in the USA. Perhaps doctors and hospitals shouldn’t be so damn greedy. And why should health care, which is so vital a service, be one that can be traded for money and is therefore biased towards the rich?
Affordable health care does not = Free health care.
Why should someone have to foot the bill for someone else’s extravagant lifestyle?
Oh did I break little your gold digging heart?
judgment day will come..so you never excepted help from not a ny person in your entire life???