Healthcare reform

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by Stryker

I would rather pay a few extra dollars in taxes than thousands of f*cking dollars to get my arm in a cast while paying normal taxes on top of that.

That's fine, and easy enough to say, but that's essentially what the divide on the issue comes down to. Personally, I would rather pay for my own broken arm than collectively help pay for everyone else's.

I just did a quick google search to get these numbers, so I don't know their accuracy, but something like 95% of all income tax is paid by only he top 3% of income earners, and the lower 40% pay no tax, with a very large percent of them actually getting money back in the form of EIC credit and such.

So you're putting the bulk of the responsibility of the health of the nation on actually very few people. And that's in addition to all of the other services taxes already pay for. And for all of that we're something like $9 Trillion in debt?

I really don't want to debate people on the issue, I'm just presenting that side of it. I honestly know very little about the current deal that is being proposed, so I really can't speak of a specific opinion on it. I recognize the health care system we currently have is greatly flawed and there's a lot of room for improvement, but I do wish it wasn't something the President was trying to get passed ASAP. Right now it just feels to me like it's something he wants to get passed for the sake of getting it passed, rather than the sake of getting it right and really making the system better.