Comments on: Health Care Reform Bill Passes House http://freelance-zone.com/blog/advice/health-care-reform-bill-passes-house/ Earn more, work smarter. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:06:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matthias S http://freelance-zone.com/blog/advice/health-care-reform-bill-passes-house/comment-page-1/#comment-2065 Matthias S Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:46:37 +0000 http://freelance-zone.com/blog/?p=3720#comment-2065 Health care is the only thing I am really, sorely missing in this country ever since I moved to California. In Germany, freelancers have their own "socialized" healthcare system. The German government is actually subsidizing this by chipping in what employers would normally chip in - about half of the cost of insurance. You can choose if you want the "private" option or the "state" option with your health insurance. There are slight differences in cost and in services paid for. The system works really well, EVERYBODY has insurance, and people take it for granted to receive medical services whenever they need them, and they are paid for. Nobody ever goes broke, no family ever loses their home or their saving because of medical bills. People in this country who are so much up in arms against universal health care don't generally know what they are talking about since they have never lived in a country that has universal health care. I suspect that the insurance industry is creating a lot of fake arguments and uses multiple front groups to confuse public opinion. Of course it will not be for free, it will cost, but it will cost everyone, and it will be much cheaper than what we would have to pay for health insurance right now. Right now, health insurance would be not affordable for my family at all. I have great hopes for the future. One of my hopes is, that people who are so worked up right now about "socialist" health care, will actually realize very soon how wrong they were, and how they adopted arguments that are based on ideology and misinformation, fed to people who think they are conservative, by a powerful lobby who has nothing else in mind but keeping their profits up and leaving things as they are. Health care is the only thing I am really, sorely missing in this country ever since I moved to California. In Germany, freelancers have their own “socialized” healthcare system. The German government is actually subsidizing this by chipping in what employers would normally chip in – about half of the cost of insurance. You can choose if you want the “private” option or the “state” option with your health insurance. There are slight differences in cost and in services paid for. The system works really well, EVERYBODY has insurance, and people take it for granted to receive medical services whenever they need them, and they are paid for. Nobody ever goes broke, no family ever loses their home or their saving because of medical bills. People in this country who are so much up in arms against universal health care don’t generally know what they are talking about since they have never lived in a country that has universal health care. I suspect that the insurance industry is creating a lot of fake arguments and uses multiple front groups to confuse public opinion. Of course it will not be for free, it will cost, but it will cost everyone, and it will be much cheaper than what we would have to pay for health insurance right now. Right now, health insurance would be not affordable for my family at all. I have great hopes for the future. One of my hopes is, that people who are so worked up right now about “socialist” health care, will actually realize very soon how wrong they were, and how they adopted arguments that are based on ideology and misinformation, fed to people who think they are conservative, by a powerful lobby who has nothing else in mind but keeping their profits up and leaving things as they are.

]]> By: Jake P http://freelance-zone.com/blog/advice/health-care-reform-bill-passes-house/comment-page-1/#comment-2038 Jake P Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:20:42 +0000 http://freelance-zone.com/blog/?p=3720#comment-2038 Joe, I'm trying not to get too worked up over something that may not happen, but this sure looks like an expensive solution. And the timing of it, in the midst of all of a financial crisis, is terrible. My experience with socialized medicine is not good from an expense perspective. Our family is in Canada for the year, and it is going to cost me several thousand dollars in extra taxes--even though I am not eligible to use their system for "free"! (For that matter, I'm not even doing any business for any Canadian clients.) Meanwhile, the Canadian government is looking toward private solutions to help them out of an unaffordable situation. Joe, I’m trying not to get too worked up over something that may not happen, but this sure looks like an expensive solution. And the timing of it, in the midst of all of a financial crisis, is terrible.

My experience with socialized medicine is not good from an expense perspective. Our family is in Canada for the year, and it is going to cost me several thousand dollars in extra taxes–even though I am not eligible to use their system for “free”! (For that matter, I’m not even doing any business for any Canadian clients.)

Meanwhile, the Canadian government is looking toward private solutions to help them out of an unaffordable situation.

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