Donkeys!

So I read something yesterday that really showed me that some otherwise intelligent people really do not have a clue on issues they claim to know so much about.

It talked about how people are lazy when it comes to healthcare and cited a statistic that 40% of employees do not take health insurance offered by their employeers. If they don't want to shell out the bucks then what should the rest of us care if they can't afford their medical care.

What? Really?!

Ok so I don't know where this guy comes from, but here in the real world it goes something like this.

I work 20 hours per week. Because of my wage I make about as much in those 20 hours as many people working 40 hours. My employer offers insurance at the rate of about $700/month for a family. Which seems fairly reasonable in comparison to others I've heard about around here.

Tell me, with just the basics. Rent/mortgage, utilities, gas, food. How it's feasable for people wo pay over half their monthly income in insurance premiums, not to mention deductibles and copays?

So people rely on medicaid, which is lazy too right? Well do you think you can just walk into the Medicaid office and they will give you free health insurance if you can afford what is offered by your employer? No. They break down your necessary bills and what the insurance costs and if you can't afford it, per their standards, they offer you insurance. If you can, they turn you away or, in some states, offer an insurance package with it's own premium, which is paid to the state every month.

Let's pull our collective heads out of our butts and in the words of the great Gordon Ramsay "Stop being fucking donkeys".