Too Many People Just Don't Know How Much Health Care Costs (Not Necessarily Those At DU, However)

[HuckleB]

I've been astounded at the comments by people on Facebook, especially. One woman wants to impeach Obama because insurance for her and her daughter will cost $320 month. Another single man in his 40s only wants insurance if it costs around $75 month.

How much do these people pay for auto insurance? Now I know, I know. So many people have been without the thought of insurance for so long that they just don't know what it has cost for a long time. They have no perspective, so the ACA is hard to take, at least for some.

Still, I had catastrophic insurance for a couple years in the early '90s. It only kicked in after several thousand dollars of individual output, and it was $50 a month then, and I was in my early 20s. Thus, it's hard to figure out how someone would be astounded by those examples. It's 22 years later. They're getting actual coverage.

Perspective is not easy for any of us. How do we help those who have been out of health care coverage for so long have perspective? Should they have perspective? I'm honestly open to any responses.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. There is no shortage of stupid, right wing Americans nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. You can subtract "right wing Americans" from that sentence and replace it with "people"

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. I don't because right wing Americans are the #1 assholes who have spent decades dumbing us down

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and filling us with propaganda which has brought our country to this sad, f"d up condition.

[HuckleB]

4. It's odd, though, I don't think they are ideologically aligned.

They react. And that's what the right wing ideologues count on and thrive on...

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. This is not limited to one side

Americans distrust authority and book learning. It's a fine tradition going all the way back to tje 1740s.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. I honestly don't know if my impression is that Americans hated book learning...

As to authority, I think Republicans admire authority tremendously. In fact, they worship it. Look at the way they idolize preachers, for example.

[Fumesucker]

5. You know that new car you were looking at recently?

Well if you break your leg it's going to cost more than that car.

My neighbor's cardiac operation cost over a third of a million dollars, lucky for him he's one of the small minority who has a union job with good insurance and he's only about thirty thousand out of pocket.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Health care is 15% of GDP.

Of course it's expensive - it consumes 15% of every dollar that the economy produces.

[HuckleB]

7. It is much too much of the GDP, but still...

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. If each of us shared the gdp fairly, your income would be about $50k.

And your share of healthcare costs would be $625 a month.