Tom, if there are 9 jobs and 12 people, three people aren't going to have jobs. I don't care how you try to rephrase it. I don't care if one of the jobs is having trouble hiring. Three people aren't going to have jobs. You can't blame those three for that fact. Maybe if they'd worked harder they could have taken one of the 9 jobs. But there'd still be three people without jobs.
You have it all wrong. There are not a lack of jobs in this country. There is a lack of
low skill jobs. If anyone is out of a job it's simply because they have not tried hard enough.
Even the mentally retarded have managed to finish college.
Lets not even get in to your vacuous reasoning of how everyone automatically, and is required to have the money for school.
Tausami is going to school without the need of having money, via loans. If you haven't noticed, the government has been giving student loans out to nearly everyone, even if they have no credit at all.
By your own admission this process would take over 2 years which is more than enough time to go from needing healthcare, to desperately needing healthcare, to being dead. How do you propose to humanely take care of these people who are trying to do the right thing?
What are you talking about? I didn't suggest that seriously ill people should go to college.
I would also like to add a little anecdote about my sister-in-law, who just gave birth to a baby in California, where it costed approximately $10,000 to have her child. She had insurance. How screwed up is that?
I don't find it screwed up. Sounds like she probably got a deal to me.
She likely had a low-cost insurance plan with a high deductible. With this sort of plan she is getting incredibly cheap insurance of perhaps $150 a month and meet her deductible, but would be liable for any minor events through the year under their deductible.
Since many people have that sort of money laying around in their rainy day fund, these sort of plans make sense. Her monthly burden is a lot less than other people who need to pay $500 a month or more for their individual plans, and any major illnesses would be covered. She could get cancer, and rack up 200K in medical bills, yet continue paying only $150 a month. The insurance company is betting that she would only need minor medical needs under 10K.
If her pregnancy or baby had serious complications and needed $80K worth of medical treatment, she would only need to have to pay up to the amount of her $10K deductible, not the entire $80K. The next week after that she could have a heart attack, and not have to pay for any of it.