It is very important... and don't call me Shirley.

There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.

and lastly...

Captain, how soon can you land?
I can't tell.
You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Well, can't you take a guess?
Well, not for another two hours.
You can't take a guess for another two hours? >> ^Payback:

>> ^Hybrid:
Only Leslie Nielsen was.>> ^Payback:
That is some serious acceleration to the cockpit of the commuter plane. I hope no one was standing up in there.


...but that's not important right now. Surely, you understand that?

>> ^imstellar28:
1. I [will] never get seriously sick or injured.

This is a false assertion, especially when you put the implied "will" into it.

2. I already have health insurance with a no-drop clause.

This too is a false assertion.

3. I'm a millionaire. I pay for healthcare in cash.

The plan will reduce the cost of the care you receive by making sure doctors no longer have incentives to pad your bill with unneeded tests and procedures, as well as allowing group plans to negotiate prices with care providers and pharmaceutical companies.

Plus, chances are if you're a millionaire you've got insurance coverage now, especially since medical costs can easily wipe out the bank account of a mere millionaire.

4. I'm ideologically and superstitiously opposed to placing bets against my own health.

Then your irrational fears will no longer hamper you from receiving care when inevitably you encounter a problem with your health. Though I suspect they will allow groups like Christian Scientists to be able to have an exemption from mandates on a religious basis.

5. I'm a doctor, surgeon, and pharmacist. Healthcare is free for me.

6. All my friends are doctors, surgeons, and pharmacists. Healthcare is free for me.

It's not free for the provider of the benefit. Reducing their costs will mean they have more money to spend on other things, like private jets and hookers, or hopefully higher doctor salaries, higher investment in the facility, etc.

7. I don't believe in modern medicine; rather I believe in a healthy diet, exercise, and the avoidance of unnecessary risk.

Modern medicine believes in those things as well, and one of the sub-goals of this is to get more preventative care covered, so things like dieticians, personal trainers, gym memberships and the like will also be covered in some form.

6. I live on a remote farm with no physical access to healthcare.

False premise, everyone has physical access in a world where we have helicopters. Presumably if there's a large enough pool of people who only have access to medical care via medevac someone will create a HDHP product that's aimed at such a market. If not, and they earn too much to qualify for Medicaid somehow, they're going to get a subsidy to help them pay for their choice of private/public individual plans, or pay a fine.

7. I don't believe in medical intervention. If injury or disease are in my cards, so be it.

Again, I presume there will be provisions that allow exclusion on religious beliefs.

8. I rely on foreign healthcare paid in cash. Its a free vacation and is much cheaper than healthcare in the US - even with insurance.

It might make care cheap enough for you to be able to get care here. I doubt there are many people for which this statement is 100% true though.

If it's true, we should copy the system of this hypothetical other country -- presumably Canada's -- and go for a much stronger form of government involvement in health care.

9. I have a large network of friends and family. We have agreed to donate money if one of us is seriously ill. None of us need insurance.

I'm not familiar with the finest of details of the plan, but I believe that allowing the formation insurance co-ops is going to be in there. In other words, such a scheme could qualify as being insurance.

10. Health insurance is a bad investment for me because I am rarely sick or injured. The money I save on premiums goes into a high-yield investment portfolio, whose funds I will draw upon in the event of an emergency.
Please explain how health care reform helps me?

If you have enough money in the investment portfolio, it may qualify as insurance (e.g. auto insurance requirements can be satisfied by this kind of thing now). If not, I suspect there will be many private insurance products targeted at just this sort of person, since I think there are nearly 20 million people who're uninsured for exactly this reason now.

I doubt you'd get resistance from the left on things like adding provisions for people to self-insure via co-op or high-value Health Savings Account, or letting people opt out on the basis of religious beliefs. I think your second #6 would be a worthy topic if there truly were lots of people in that category, though I suspect the response would be to look into what could be done to give them physical access to care, rather than just exempting them from the relevant mandates.

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" This movie and its entire premise is horribly miscued. Free, government run, public health care greatly reduces the quality of care because there is no longer incentive to become a good doctor, and because like all government regulations, loopholes are used and errors are swept under the rug. Think about it, when someone needs cancer treatment, or heart surgery where do they go? To the United States because we have some of the most advanced equipment and best doctors. Of course simple little crap like random checkups could be free via tax money (oh but wait, everyone is too dumb to realize that tax increases are good), but major surguries certainly should not be."

What a steaming load of tripe.

I live in Australia, and we have a pretty great health care system (at least in comparison), and my son has a collection of serious heart defects... are we on the poverty line because we have to pay for all his treatments? NO

Do we have any incentive to move to the US because, as you say, the US the the best at everything health related? NO! Because they're not. Melbourne, Australia has some of the finest heart specialists in the world, and it doesn't cost us a cent to be treated by them.

So f*ck you and your ridiculous, baseless, untrue, factually incorrect statements and that people should have to pay through the nose for being able to stay healthy.

Just this last Friday we spent around 7 hours in the Emergency Rooms of our Children's hospital with our son, had blood tests, and x-ray, check overs from many doctors... NO FEE, just walk out, all done.

Yeah, the US system is just GREAT.

Moron.

"To the United States because we have some of the most advanced equipment and best doctors." No, you have loads of money and tons of fancy equipment. And "being a good" doctor really isn't the best way to gain prestige and rise through the ranks.