Should someone with no left arm be forced to subsidize someone else's right arm surgery?

[Orrex]

With all the hubbub about honest men being so cruelly extorted to pay for wimminfolk's elective healthcare choices (breast exams, contraception, etc.), it seemed reasonable to probe the boundaries of this line of thinking.


Let's hear it!

[Skink]

1. Yes socialism for all

not just the banks

[bettydavis]

2. i don't think you understand the basic principle of insurance

People pool their money with premiums and it is dispensed to pay for damages as the occur to policy holders. All insurance is based on this principle. So to answer your question, yes. Until we have single payer, lefty will pay his premiums and they will be disbursed as needed. And if lefty's right leg gets broken maybe a double amputee may indirectly end up subsidizing the setting of his bone and the subsequent cast. that's how insurance works.

[HERVEPA]

4. I don't think you understand the basic principle of irony/sarcasm

[Orrex]

11. Maybe not, but I loved her in "White Mama"

Along with yet another fine performance by Ernie Hudson!

[HERVEPA]

12. Sat what? I assume you saw I was not responding to you but to

poster who responded to you. But I realize i can't keep up with your mind.

[Orrex]

15. No way--you're doing fine!

I was riffing on her screen name and Ms. Davis' long acting career.

[HERVEPA]

18. Geez. I didn't see the screen name.

[msanthrope]

22. It's Bette. And I can imagine her posting here......

http://m.

&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DS3zShjyaTr8

[Sheldon Cooper]

3. Well, I'm right-handed, so I don't give a shit about southpaws.

Their arms can fall off for all I care!

(this is sarcasm, in case anyone is planning to alert)

[Raine1967]

6. Sick of South bashing!

I'm tired of the south bashing!

(and yes for the irony impaired!)

[magical thyme]

19. don't you mean southpaw bashing?

[sibelian]

5. A more pertinent and timely question is difficult to imagine, Orrex.

... UNLESSS...

Should the castrated be required to pay out for the gonadically non-challenged? I'm sure you've seen the thread about that poor chap who had his assets stripped elsewhere on GD. Think how the gentleman must be feeling. Just THINK.

[Quantess]

7. Yes, let's all go around yelling at people wearing casts and splints and crutches.

Those irresponsible jerks broke their bones ON MY TAB!!!
Have fun hobbling around on crutches, ya fuckin' FREELOADER!
Hey laugh it up, you in the body cast. Enjoy your month in traction, cuz I'M PAYING FOR IT!

[Arugula Latte]

26. Yeah, half of them are FAKING it, too!

"Oh, sure, I'll just lie here in this bed in a full body cast watching "Montel" and eating bonbons all day while not going to work!" Slackers!

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I'm forced to subsidize bad drivers or those without any car insurance. Been

doing that for decades.

[RobinA]

9. Childless

I have no children, so I refuse to pay to insure children, OR the gestation thereof. Also, no hemophiliacs in my family, so get your blood transfusions on somebody else's dime.

[HarveyDarkey]

23. You shouldn't have to pay property taxes either

Most of them go to schooling other people's children.
Why should you have to pay to educate other people's children?

[EC]

10. They act as though

insurance companies should just write policies for each individual. It's a product made to work with the average family/person, not each individual or sex.

[Fumesucker]

21. Since different people pay differing rates based on various artificial criteria

The idea that people can pay differing rates is already out there and accepted.

All that's happening now is determining which artificial criteria will be used.

[bemildred]

13. Why the heck have insurance anyway, if you just want to pay yourself? nt

[Bradical79]

14. Yes -nt

[Sheepshank]

16. I never get migranes, I don't have diabetes, high blood pressure or have had brain aneurisms.

I try and stay in the normal healthy weight range. I choose to get immunizations, and have NEVER had the flu, whooping cough or pertussis. I've never had my appendix out, or my tonsils.

I choose to eat healthy foods (I choose to stay away from excessive transfats and sugar), I choose to exercise, maybe that has helped avoid some of the above health issues...just a little. I am paying for all those other freeloaders that get to see the doctor with those health issues?



Socialism is great, ain't it?

[Quantess]

17. One day you might fall down the stairs

or slip on a banana peel on your way out of the gym and need surgery to fix one or more broken bones. Surgery to fix a broken limb ain't cheap.

[Sheepshank]

31. and then I'll be thankful for ACA and it's socialistic tendencies

....I wonder if my previous post may have come across as anti ACA?

my sarcasm is loosely worded to the response on another thread that pregnancy is a choice and therefore everyone should be pissed that it's is a mandatory insurance requirement. Sorry for being so obtuse!!!

[Quantess]

32. I read your post as ambiguous, and not clearly sarcasm.

Now we know for sure it was sarcasm. I was concerned that MY sarcastic post upthread wasn't obvious enough.

[Rex]

20. Insurance is just meant to cover you in general terms.

It doesn't take into account what you personally want down to the minute details of, 'I refuse to pay my premiums if any of the money goes for X Y and Z'. Just doesn't work that way.

You want insurance, you pay the premiums. This is umbrella insurance by the govt and people should be happy to get it imo.

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. lol

[BainsBane]

25. Armless Americans unite!

?w=300&h=172

[HereSince1628]

27. Yes, particularly if the lost arm was the source of this

[OregonBlue]

28. I don't want to pay for prostate cancer exams or viagra. And I really don't want to pay

for treatment for sports injuries.

[Squinch]

29. I am offended that there is no policy tier called "Only the Medical Care that Squinch Needs."

I feel oppressed.

[Skink]

30. Right with you Squinch