Do I deserve better health care then you?

Question

My husband and I have a combined average income that is above the national average. We live in a nice suburb and have no children.

Answer 1

I'm gonna give this from an English sense.

No, you don't. Well all get the same health care, unless you pay for B.U.P.A or something.

In America, you have to pay for your health care, so you get what you pay for.

Answer 2

People "deserve" what they can afford - what they have worked, saved and otherwise made arrangements for - and also whatever others out of the goodness of their heart want to give them.

Answer 3

Deserve has nothing to do with it.   You can afford better health care so you have it.

Answer 4

You don't "deserve" it just like you don't deserve to live in a nice house. You can afford better health care and a better house. That's life, there's always someone with more or better.  

Answer 5

Um, no...I don't think you do.  What does income have to do with you having better healthcare than than others?  

Answer 6

Every one needs health care. I had a small mini stroke 2 weeks ago. I am very lucky that I have health care. The MRI at the hospital was $900 after the health care insurance. I was very lucky. The people who don't have health care, may die. I know that this country can still die. I awakend the concept that this country is only for the rich. It will take at least 1 year until my brain but if I had happened not been for health care.

Answer 7

That's the problem, people have stopped working because they feel like they deserve to be supported and taken care of instead of working hard and taking care of yourself.  I have a friend who works for Social Services that says she has 4th generation welfare clients showing up at her office who know more about what they are entitled to than she does.  We have fostered generations of do nothing welfare recipients who's housing, fuel, food, and health care is provided for them and they supplement their benefits, as they call them, by selling weed and rock.  We need to eliminate welfare and institute workfare.

Answer 8

My step-daughter has zero income.  She walks into the local hospital and gets the same care as a millionaire...all for free for her.

SO, the poor get as good as care as the rich in the USA.

No more liberal hate and lies

No more liberal HATE and LIES

Answer 9

If you can afford it then yes you can have and it wouldn't make me angry. It is not a basic human right you don't deserve any health care at all, but you have the right to ask for better health care if you can pay for it.  

Answer 10

You don't deserve anything, really....you get what you pay for.

You probably have better health insurance than I do, but that doesn't mean you have better care - I can still choose to go to good doctors....

Answer 11

You deserve the health care you can afford.

Answer 12

If you have the money, you can afford to obtain whatever health care you wish, or you can purchase whatever level of health care insurance you desire.

The question you should be asking is:  Do you deserve to have the government take your hard-earned money to provide health-care insurance for someone else who either does not have the money or who does not wish to reprioritize their earnings to obtain it for themselves?

I know many young people who don't have health insurance because they would rather spend their money on other things.  Yet these people are included in the numbers of "uninsured" that we are supposed to feel pity for and allow the government to increase our taxes to pay for their coverage.  I have always had health care insurance, sometimes paid for by my employer, usually paid for by myself out of payroll deductions.  

There are some people who are truly needy and unable to provide for themselves or their families, and these are the ones that we need to help, not those with the means, but not the will to do for themselves.

Employers who provide health care insurance for their employees should be given tax credits for the entire amount that they spend on that coverage, to encourage other businesses and employers to do the same.  The money for national health care coverage should NOT come from the wages of employees.

Answer 13

I think a big problem is that too many Americans just don't see the larger picture. I think every human being deserves good health care from people truly committed to providing care. The fact is that there aren't enough good paying jobs for our population. The cost of living is very high in many places. Some very wealthy people are delusional because they think that having money means that they are more deserving than others not as well off. For some to be wealthy means that someone else has to be poor. That's how it goes. Life is chance. You have a chance to be rich, middle class, or poor. Just because you want a job or more doesn't mean that you will be able to find one. Life is very hard and I don't think enough people really appreciate what that means. If you are poor, in poor health, have mental challenges, and didn't receive a good education then you are going to have a hard time just surviving. People that are poor and on welfare don't live rosy lives unless they are living a lie. I've seen plenty of wealthy people do things to make it look like they are poor. I've seen plenty of wealthy people that don't work and just live off their parents essentially. Yeah, that is something to aspire to. I strongly believe that people's anger is misdirected. I pay a lot in taxes. I could use more of my hard earned money back. I think that's true of a lot of people. But it's not the welfare people that are the cause. It's something else and it's a lot harder to fight.