spice-boy

roadracerkev said:

"Children are the parents responsibility, if the family can’t afford their health care then maybe they should buy a few condoms."

Peoples circumstances can change, literally in the blink of an eye. Life threatening illness, accident, a multitude of things. But to then say, 'oh well, you should have used a condom" is both patronising and callous. Calling people who struggle to pay, or outright cannot afford, adequate health care 'lazy', when many hold down multiple jobs probably shows what a tiny self-absorbed bubble you live in. The US healthcare system is a train wreck when viewed from the outside. In fact calling it a health care system at all is probably being generous. How can the supposedly richest country in the world have health care that costs 3x as much as anywhere else? Basic pharmaceuticals that in many instances costs hundreds more than in other first-world countries? Health care in the US is not about health care, its about making as much money as possible of every sick person.

"Absolutely nothing should be handed out to the lazy.   It is perhaps the most disgusting thing we do with our tax dollars. "

Well, I guess that depends on whether you think access to affordable health care is a basic human right. Which it is in any modern, functioning society.

wizard69 said:

lkrupp said:

spice-boy said:

Apple should pay for every American's healthcare. 

Whatever. Last I read even Bernie Sanders predicts medicare for all would cost $40 trillion over a decade. Even evil, greedy, amoral, capitalist Apple doesn’t have that kind of dough. Nothing is free @spice-boy.

The problem isn’t the cost it is the problems making things like health free,  care causes society.   We would be far better off to make it illegal to sell health care to people without a job.   That would have a dramatically more positive impact on society.   

It should be perfectly obvious to anybody what the welfare state has done to certain segments of our culture.  We effectively have created multiple generations of violent and lazy individuals who spend their days trying to disrupt the very hand that feeds them.   

wizard69 said:

spice-boy said:

Apple should pay for every American's healthcare. 

 Not every American deserves health care!!   This talking point is one of the more stupid things the left has come up with.  

What Apple should be using that money for is transformative research, especially into energy!!!   Contrary to popular opinion “renewables” will never solve our energy needs.