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This is very true.

That said, I'd rather be in the pool of healthy, employed people than the unemployed moochers ;)

Look both ways before you cross the street. You're only one car accident away from being disabled for life.

And this has 0 impact on the cost of my health insurance. It has a real cost in terms of long term care insurance (which is horrendously expensive, but not what the OP was asking about).

Don't plan on growing old then. :-)

The best part about a government plan is that in the grand scheme of things, moochers are a small subset of the picture.

It poses problems for sure, like "crowded" emerge rooms, (brackets because the crowds vanish if you have a real issue) but overall the numbers all show that it's cheaper both to the consumer and to the system overall.

Like I said our system is screwed up, but getting rid of it is a HUGE ordeal with millions of jobs likely to be cut and a HUGE expense to cut over to it.

And in this country, where big pharma and big medical business runs the show (congress, etc.) it is likely that a "universal" healthcare system will result in a crappy, inefficient implementation that everyone will hate.

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