Question by wifemom203: How can the US continue to allow people to go without food & health insurance? how to fix?
How can one of the most powerful countries in the world “fix” everyone else’s problems yet allow their own to suffer from poverty, no reasonably priced health care, Yet our senators & reps don’t pay into Soc Security and get soooo much ?? Why do we as citizens continue to elect these jack***& let them continue to make these decisions with no repercussions for their behavior??
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We cant count on the government to always fix things. But to your point of all the people without access to medical. I would suggest to you that its not quite as many as you think. I have a brother in law that choses to be homeless (yes choses). Because he says, he doesnt want to work because he will have too much of his income taken out for child support. He was in the hospital for over a month and the “governemnt” picked up the tab for that. Then there are people on welfare who get medical. No one is refused medical treatment. Most americans have health care and those that dont can still get aid.
It’s the fact that no one wants to treat or diagnose anything if you don’t have the insurance, which by the way gets charged less than you do if you pay for the service out of pocket! As far as going without food I have never had a problem getting foodstamps when it was necessary to do so!
Because it would be thoroughly unfair to force people to pay for things they can’t afford.
Get real. “Allow” connotes freedom, which is all a government should give you. And that same “allow” is what permits anyone to make whatever they want out of themselves, purchase whatever they want. You’d have a gripe if you could phrase the question “How can the US FORBID people from buying food or health insurance,” but you can’t.