As I sit here doing my taxes
Thought I'd procrastinate this year. It hit me like a sledge hammer...When answering my CPAs questionnaire, I see the questions about where I get my health insurance.
It reminds me of why I'm finally pulling the plug and selling my property in California...Why does the government feel it must be involved in my healthcare/insurance? The only reason I can come up with is because it's the final piece in controlling my life. As you may have seen recently - they'll even SWAT team your home and tear your kids from it over this. What kind of world are we living in? What a strange paradigm we're in now... My kids get awards for school attendance every year because they NEVER get sick. I'm starting to dread that award because parents will always corner me (where in our school, like any other, at times 1/5 of the student body is out from sharing the flu) and beg me to tell them how we do it. As your tax man...
It reminds me of why I'm finally pulling the plug and selling my property in California...Why does the government feel it must be involved in my healthcare/insurance? The only reason I can come up with is because it's the final piece in controlling my life. As you may have seen recently - they'll even SWAT team your home and tear your kids from it over this. What kind of world are we living in? What a strange paradigm we're in now... My kids get awards for school attendance every year because they NEVER get sick. I'm starting to dread that award because parents will always corner me (where in our school, like any other, at times 1/5 of the student body is out from sharing the flu) and beg me to tell them how we do it. As your tax man...
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1) It added 16,000 IRS Agents
2) It added ZERO doctors
I dunno, but methinks that is NOT a formula for lowering health care costs...
BTW, you know how to drive FRAUD to ZERO in healthcare? (make people pay their own way). You notice there is no big fraud in shoes? (because government and insurance does not buy them). The Big Fraud only shows up when SOMEONE else is paying.
“the questions about where I get my health insurance.”
I don’t know if I did the healthcare form right because I changed insurance in the middle of the year. I understand why we have to show the gov’t we have insurance. If people don’t have money or insurance to pay for medical care, the government is unwilling to let them go without. They turn up at the emergency room, and people are unwilling to have the gov’t just pay a minimal cost to get them off the street and back to their residence. If somehow we’re going to get roped into back-door socialism of paying for their expenses, it makes total sense that people should have to prove they have insurance or money to pay for their care if they get sick.
If we didn’t have this system and really let people go without medicine, I think most people and their families and faith communities would rise up and fill the role of the gov’t. But not all would. I don’t know how many people would rise to the occasion. I definitely agree our current system, where most customers and providers don’t know or care what prices are is really bad. The government has been trying to implement some reforms in this area:
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
It was something the Trump campaign released, and they actually acted on it after they won.
“they'll even SWAT team your home and tear your kids from it over this.”
The rare case where someone is violently arrested for a mistake or technicality like a tax a form are horrific but a really rare peril. I try to support any reforms to stop things like this, but if I spent too much time thinking about it I’d need to be put in a padded room.
“dread that award because parents will always corner me”
They’re a lot of people who are nuts in the world. You never know what weird demons or battles they’re fighting in their private lives. If someone’s obsessed about getting sick, which is a normal part of life, because they want a little gold star from a grade school, they obviously have some issues going on. Or maybe they just aren’t good at making conversation and they see this as a positive thing to make small talk about to get to know people better. In cases where people are truly being neurotic about something like attendance awards and I find out the underlying issue, it’s often something I never would have thought of.