OldSchool Loc: Moving to the Red State of Utah soon!

Even children understand when they are being s**mmed.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/12/who_likes_their_health_insurance.html

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

I hope a few people take the time to see the link in the article. Those kids really got tired of being pushed around. Maybe we need some kids like them to stand up to the Obama administration and their desire to push Obamacare down our throats.

ibKelly

Dont even have any health insurance other than Medicare..

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

A Medicare Supplement (sometimes called Medigap) wouldn't be a bad idea to cover the 20% that Medicare doesn't cover...unless you are retired military, in which case TRICARE For Life serves the same function.

ibKelly

Am not familiar with Medigap. How much does it cost and can I still get it

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

Many different companies sell Medicare Supplements. There are about 10 standard plans, with provisions approved by Medicare, ranging from the most basic to ones having more expansive benefits. Here's a link for a webpage at Medicare.gov that will help you learn more about it and get premium quotes:

http://www.medicare.gov/find-a-plan/questions/medigap-home.aspx

Timeforreality

I like my health insurance and I'm keeping it. I don't even mind paying taxes so poor people can have insurance too!

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Great! How generous of you! Why don't you adopt a poor person and pay for their insurance yourself? If all benevolent people such as yourself did that there would be no need for another monstrous federal bureaucracy.

I'm poor and I pay for my insurance as well as my 21 year old college attending daughter, and I manage to live well with no help from the government. It's called work and frugality.

Timeforreality

Actually Big Mike most of my charitable contributions go to The Hunger Task Force to help feed people who lost their job due to the Great Bush Recession. When I was still working I did help four of the part-timers pay their health insurance premiums. I wish you and your family well and hope some private equity firm doesn't buy your company and give you a pink slip so they can make an ever higher profit.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

I hope not either, but if it does I'll deal with it. The last time I was unemployed and without insurance I was able to see a doctor, get Xrays and medication through the vehicle that was ALREADY available - health clinic and ER admission, and was able to do it without the creation of a huge, Frankenstein government agency.

Poor people have ALWAYS been able to get health care. The idea that the ACA is about anything other than a power grab by the federal government is ludicrous. They want civic minded people like you to willingly surrender more of your hard earned dough to the Washington bureaucracy, so they can use it to buy v**es, expand the government and most importantly line their own pockets and pay off their cronies. Gaffe after even more ridiculous gaffe tells me the ACA was never expected to work - no one can be that stupid! If they did expect it to work, it's not. There was never a need for a complete upending of the system. At best we're trading one group of uninsured for another, and they will STILL get treated at clinics and ERs. There was need for reform, and during every e******n cycle for the past 40 years they'd kick around the idea of beginning with tort reform only to shelve it again once they were safely ensconced in office.

I've been an active drug addict/alcoholic most of my life and I've been to prison twice. I know what it's like to be on the streets, so wh**ever you hope doesn't happen to me already has, more than once! What I learned - finally! - is that I have ALWAYS had the ability to take responsibility for my own life. All I had to do was turn around. "Metanoeo" is the Greek word t***slated into the word "repent" in the English Bible. Literally, it means "change your mind". I pretended I was a victim and relied on codependent people to help me continue living a bulls**t life. Despite their good intentions they did me more harm than good. When that dried up, and misery forced me to take a look at myself, I changed my mind. It's amazing how the harder I work the better my luck seems to get. I'm all for charity friend. If it had not been for the Salvation Army I'd probably be a dead man. But making a person dependent on government handouts from cradle to grave diminishes us as a species. Your wasting your charity money if it isn't given with the goal of creating independence in those you give it to. The same with tax money. ANYTHING that does not foster independence is a waste to everyone except the bureaucracy.

And when it comes right down to it, if you don't mind paying a little extra in taxes to help the uninsured, no one is stopping you from doing so. You have NO right to be generous with other people's money!