> If you can't pay for it yourself, you're looking for charity.
I hope you don't believe in Karma, because you're tempting fate. I doubt you'd strike the same tune if you or your loved ones had a severe and/or chronic illness that threatened to bankrupt you through no fault of your own.
Also, in the US, your health insurance is probably tied to your employment. Expecting someone to stay at the same job (on the same insurance) for the rest of their life after learning about some illness, and calling anyone who isn't able to do this a charity-seeker, is asshole behavior.
I live in a country where we gladly finance the health care of other people without looking for anything in return.
I really don't understand the lack of compassion that can ground such an ideology.
I never suggested there was anything wrong with financing health care that way. I don't bring up that he's looking for charity to criticize him or anyone else in his position. I bring it up to point out that in our ridiculous health care system, health insurance companies are making a fortune acting like charities, and it's coming out of their customers' pockets.
