True Murican WOULD NOT sign up for Obamacare. Now he is going blind and wants help. The stupidity is amazing.

http://gawker.com/man-who-would-rather-go-blind-than-get-obamacare-now-go-1704019495?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gawker_facebook


The GOP says: Go to the Emergency Room fella.  (The other GOP option is to die.)

Who should save the sight of an uninsured South Carolina man who can’t afford eye surgery? That’s the question the Charlotte Observer asks in a story about a 49-year-old Republican who declined to sign up for Obamacare because he “prided himself on paying his own medical bills,” and is now upset that the Affordable Care Act won’t bail him out.

Luis Lang, a self-employed handyman from Fort Mill whose clients include the federal government, told the Observer he “knew the act required him to get coverage but he chose not to do so. But he thought help would be available in an emergency,” like the mini-strokes and deteriorating vision he suffered in February.

It’s not available though, because that’s not how insurance works. Insurance companies are profitable because they take your money before you incur major medical expenses, not because they save new customers’ eyes for free. It’s almost like the needs of the market aren’t aligned with the needs of actual human beings, as if the American healthcare system encourages people to gamble that they’ll stay healthy instead of getting insurance, and forces society to bear the costs when the house wins (which is always).

If only there were some way to make people get insurance, and maybe even help them pay for it to save all of us money in the long run.

Nahhh, that’s crazy.