Stop Punishing the Healthy
Having 15 million healthy people forced to pay for 7 million unhealthy people isn’t fair and it’s unAmerican. To be clear, the headline, “22 million will lose health care coverage under the Senate’s bill” is a FAKE headline. In reality, only 7 million “lose” their coverage, not 22 million. According to the Congressional Budget Office report, the vast majority that will go uninsured (68% or 15 million) are young, healthy people who won’t “lose” coverage but instead will voluntarily drop their coverage since they didn’t want to purchase health insurance in the first place.
Their freedom was diminished when Obama’s Affordable Care Act forced them to buy a product they didn’t want, or be forced to cough up a hefty penalty come tax time. Even the GOP is doing a terrible job explaining this. The people/entities who should be paying for the unhealthy are those that financially benefit from an increased supply of unhealthy people: food processing companies such as Monsanto and Kellogg’s, farmers who put too many animals in an unnaturally small amount of space, pesticide producers, the sugar industry, pharmaceutical companies who make drugs for chronic diseases, and hospital and doctors who love the steady lead stream of customers our food industry supplies. Similar to how tobacco industry lawsuit settlements had to fund anti-smoking advertising, our elected leaders should look to the many, many beneficiaries of an unhealthy population for a solution, instead of penalizing young and healthy people.
Their freedom was diminished when Obama’s Affordable Care Act forced them to buy a product they didn’t want, or be forced to cough up a hefty penalty come tax time. Even the GOP is doing a terrible job explaining this. The people/entities who should be paying for the unhealthy are those that financially benefit from an increased supply of unhealthy people: food processing companies such as Monsanto and Kellogg’s, farmers who put too many animals in an unnaturally small amount of space, pesticide producers, the sugar industry, pharmaceutical companies who make drugs for chronic diseases, and hospital and doctors who love the steady lead stream of customers our food industry supplies. Similar to how tobacco industry lawsuit settlements had to fund anti-smoking advertising, our elected leaders should look to the many, many beneficiaries of an unhealthy population for a solution, instead of penalizing young and healthy people.
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