Tired of excuses

OK - there are 46,000,000 people without health care in the US. What exactly does that mean?

As a taxpayer it means that all these people only see a doctor when they are very sick. It also means they probably don't have a doctor at all. So according to several web sources here are some sobering statistics:

Chance of an American woman developing cancer in her lifetime: 1 in 3. Chance of getting prostate cancer: 1 in 6. Chance of getting breast cancer: 1 in 9

I am no statistician but let's play with some of these numbers....
#1 - Chance of getting prostate cancer: 1 in 6

OK so the first thing is only men get this and they represent 49% of the US population or roughly 22,540,000 of those uninsured. If the odds are 1 in 6 that means that roughly 17% of those will get prostrate cancer or about 3,831,800 men will get this form of cancer. untreated, prostrate cancer is fatal but if caught and treated early there is a very high survival rate.

So what you say? Well, when someone without insurance gets sick, one of the big complaints is that they go to the hospital "for every little thing." Most likely because these 3,831,800 men who have no insurance will also not have a doctor they see regularly for "the exam" they will likely end up in the ER too late do do anything simple about their cancer and so we as society now get faced with a simple prospect. Treat them or let them suffer and die.

Of course treating later stage prostrate (or any) cancer is way more expensive that the procedures if caught early so if we choose to treat them we can expect to shell out multiple tens of thousands of dollars possibly hundreds of thousands. I'll keep it simple and say just $30,000. Doing the math that means something on the order of $114,954,000,000 (yes that is billions) to treat these poor guys. Of course if we had helped them by providing even rudimentary annual physicals we could have treated them earlier but that would have meant the dreaded 'government health care' option.

So this argument comes once again back to only one thing really, money. Those people that do not want health care reform and health care for all do it because they are selfish and just want to keep all there own money and let the rest of the US be damned!