okay well i how how how do you feel about that
i think it's great um i think like socialized medicine um i think it's a very good idea personally because right now i don't have any health insurance at all
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and i just know that it's first you know i could get it where i work and but it would be like a hundred dollars a month which is a lot to me
and i really just can't afford it uh i have worked places where i had insurance but you know on a more i work for a very small company now
and i i realize that you know it would for that to be true you'd you'd have to increase taxes and stuff like that but uh
i know other people that are you know in the same situation and when it's just uh i if you don't work for a large company it's really hard to have insurance
um
i would be willing to you know pay more taxes but
uh and i i think it's just i think everybody should have the option to have health care i mean i don't think
you know but the only way to do that
would be to you know have to tax more
yeah there there wouldn't have to be some way to pay for it
the
the
i agree with you that that uh
it's no fun to to not have insurance i'm i've had health insurance through my uh
either my parents uh employment or my employment for many years but uh now i'm looking as at a
layoff situation and i'm sitting here saying well how much is it going to cost me
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the uh the prospect of going without health insurance is is uh not very exciting to me either
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uh
the the problem that i have with
with uh
universal health insurance is the problem of basically just absolute and complete distrust
for the politicians
they'll start i mean they could they could say we're going to do it the right way in the beginning and convince me
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but i don't have a lot of faith that they would
uh
that they would not
use it as a as a uh
oh as a carrot to get votes uh my i called and asked
uh the uh unemployment insurance people here
i said how long you know what's the unemployed what do i get if i'm unemployed and how long will i get it
you know it's very interesting the guy on the other end is a young man he said uh
uh with a good sense of humor he says well he says right now it's twenty six weeks uh in periods of severe unemployment and just before an election
they will extend it and get all the votes of the people that that like that but he says in your case uh if you're going uh
to be needing it in a little while by the time you get to the end of your twenty six weeks uh the elections will be over and
we won't have it anymore i can tell you that
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so i
so i'm uh uh i'm i'm uh for the first time i'm i'm seeing things to a uh i'm paying attention to things that i never paid before uh attention attention attention to
right yeah you don't really think about it until you you're in a situation where you have to think about it
on the other hand like i say they i have i have lived in places where they had uh free medical care
and i have to say that that uh
that it that it was uh
it was comforting to know that you had it but but
the way it worked in practice was
that
uh in order to get enough
doctors
the uh they used a lot of student doctors a lot more than people would put up with over here
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and
uh my wife has dozens and dozens of stories of people that went in for a simple operation and then died on the table because of the incompetent care
um
so i'm and and she didn't have any axe to grind you know she just grew up in that situation and said well that's the way it is and uh
so on the one hand i i'm
i'm saying well
now i know how people that don't have insurance feel and on the other hand i'm saying uh
i don't trust the politicians very much i think that they are very good at at uh
huh
i think they're so corrupt that they just use it as a vote getting
uh situation and they don't pay and and they don't make it a very uh
there's not a lot of integrity to the things that they do
well by the um the same note of what you're saying there could be pros in that situation um
for their being
