One in five families have trouble paying medical bills

[ejpoeta]

1. that's what I try to explain to people. We are already paying

three times for our insurance. First we pay our insurance through work. Then we pay for medicaid and medicare through our taxes. Then we pay again for those who are uninsured through higher costs at hospital and doctor and other medical places. Also, we pay into a private insurer while we are healthy and where does that money go when we switch jobs or our employer changes insurers? We pay into it while we are healthy and don't need it and then end either get old enough to be on medicare where our need to use it increases with age, or we get sick and how often can you be sick and keep working? How many end up on medicaid anyway when they need to use it the most??

We pay for it. We pay into it but instead of our contributions following us so it's there when we need it because we are all paying into one big pool, we keep being moved from pool to pool. How can it ever work when the insurance companies can make sure they have healthy people to cover and the ones who actually use it are mostly on the public insurance or medicare?