Comments on: on feelings of entitlement. http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/ one stink, dozens of different ways. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:56:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Elisabeth http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41547 Elisabeth Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:50:22 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41547 Maybe someone else told you this already, and maybe this isn't the hopeful type of comment you're used to, but having health insurance through your workplace is relatively new. I learned this about 10 years ago in high school, and it has helped me deal with the "health care crisis" mentally and emotionally to know the why's...maybe it will help you, too. It all started right after WWII, when business needed a way to lure workers in who were returning from war. Back then, there weren't enough workers to go around (unlike now, where there aren't enough jobs to go around). They figured that a good way to get and keep workers without raising salaries too much was to give them health insurance as an incentive. If you think about health insurance, its a big pool that people dump their money into. It works if less people are using it than there are people contributing. Businesses liked this idea, because unlike doling out a higher wage regularly, they would only pay for those who became sick periodically, which kept their expenditures down while still luring workers into a competitive market. So modern healthcare was essentially just a gimmick. And you're right, people do feel entitled to something they've always had and have grown to see as the norm. But once you learn the background of it, it all starts to make a little more sense. It wasn't meant to be the American way of life, or a guarantee of health as one of our country's freedoms, and it had nothing to do with our government trying to take care of its people in a great new way. It was a business plan. I don't have an answer to your health care woes, or even mine, but I do think being educated on the origins of health insurance helps. If we understand that our former health insurance program just may not work anymore because the market is different than it was back then, perhaps we will begin to open our minds to another way that is more feasible. It isn't about who deserves it more than another, or who is more entitled, it is about finding a solution. Maybe someone else told you this already, and maybe this isn’t the hopeful type of comment you’re used to, but having health insurance through your workplace is relatively new. I learned this about 10 years ago in high school, and it has helped me deal with the “health care crisis” mentally and emotionally to know the why’s…maybe it will help you, too. It all started right after WWII, when business needed a way to lure workers in who were returning from war. Back then, there weren’t enough workers to go around (unlike now, where there aren’t enough jobs to go around). They figured that a good way to get and keep workers without raising salaries too much was to give them health insurance as an incentive. If you think about health insurance, its a big pool that people dump their money into. It works if less people are using it than there are people contributing. Businesses liked this idea, because unlike doling out a higher wage regularly, they would only pay for those who became sick periodically, which kept their expenditures down while still luring workers into a competitive market. So modern healthcare was essentially just a gimmick. And you’re right, people do feel entitled to something they’ve always had and have grown to see as the norm. But once you learn the background of it, it all starts to make a little more sense. It wasn’t meant to be the American way of life, or a guarantee of health as one of our country’s freedoms, and it had nothing to do with our government trying to take care of its people in a great new way. It was a business plan. I don’t have an answer to your health care woes, or even mine, but I do think being educated on the origins of health insurance helps. If we understand that our former health insurance program just may not work anymore because the market is different than it was back then, perhaps we will begin to open our minds to another way that is more feasible. It isn’t about who deserves it more than another, or who is more entitled, it is about finding a solution.

]]> By: AnotherSuburbanMom http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41537 AnotherSuburbanMom Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:53:51 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41537 I don't see why the company can't offer voluntary health insurance. You would still pay for all of it, but it would be cheaper than buying your own. I don’t see why the company can’t offer voluntary health insurance. You would still pay for all of it, but it would be cheaper than buying your own.

]]> By: Jennifer http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41495 Jennifer Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:16:22 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41495 Casey, my husband is an attorney also, just practicing a little over one year. Isn't it amazing at the amount of people who think that just because they are lawyers we are filthy rich?! HA! Hopefully one day, right? Not having health care sucks, we have been there, and I do think everyone deserves it. But this is going to blow up in our faces. Casey, my husband is an attorney also, just practicing a little over one year. Isn’t it amazing at the amount of people who think that just because they are lawyers we are filthy rich?! HA! Hopefully one day, right?

Not having health care sucks, we have been there, and I do think everyone deserves it. But this is going to blow up in our faces.

]]> By: Casey http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41469 Casey Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:32:28 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41469 <a href="#comment-41447" rel="nofollow">@Stephanie</a>, Yeah, like I said in a comment above, I know that if something did happen to us, we wouldn't die. Because we *do* have doctors within ten minutes of our front door. A lot of people in this world don't even have that blessing. I'd rather it not happen, but I know if it did we'd be okay. Faith in God is cool like that. @Stephanie, Yeah, like I said in a comment above, I know that if something did happen to us, we wouldn’t die.
Because we *do* have doctors within ten minutes of our front door.
A lot of people in this world don’t even have that blessing.
I’d rather it not happen, but I know if it did we’d be okay.
Faith in God is cool like that.

]]> By: Casey http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41468 Casey Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:30:21 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41468 <a href="#comment-41446" rel="nofollow">@Rachael</a>, Because it's fun to one up people with your misery! Oh...wait... @Rachael, Because it’s fun to one up people with your misery!
Oh…wait…

]]> By: Casey http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41467 Casey Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:29:43 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41467 <a href="#comment-41445" rel="nofollow">@Diana Lee</a>, Dude, student loans don't even go away after you die as long as you left somebody behind. We're saving up for Addie's school now, well, school or therapy. She can choose. @Diana Lee, Dude, student loans don’t even go away after you die as long as you left somebody behind.
We’re saving up for Addie’s school now, well, school or therapy.
She can choose.

]]> By: Casey http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41466 Casey Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:28:16 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41466 <a href="#comment-41443" rel="nofollow">@Candace</a>, Aw thanks, here, let me get that rash for you. @Candace, Aw thanks, here, let me get that rash for you.

]]> By: Casey http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41465 Casey Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:27:42 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41465 <a href="#comment-41442" rel="nofollow">@Dawn</a>, I started this post written to Addie, about feelings of entitlement. Then I realized she's five and it's the grownups (including me) that are being such pimpleheads about it. @Dawn, I started this post written to Addie, about feelings of entitlement. Then I realized she’s five and it’s the grownups (including me) that are being such pimpleheads about it.

]]> By: Casey http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41464 Casey Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:26:45 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41464 <a href="#comment-41441" rel="nofollow">@Kari</a>, That is so tempting on so many levels. @Kari, That is so tempting on so many levels.

]]> By: Casey http://mooshinindy.com/2010/03/22/on-feelings-of-entitlement/comment-page-1/#comment-41463 Casey Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:25:48 +0000 http://mooshinindy.com/?p=2297#comment-41463 <a href="#comment-41438" rel="nofollow">@dusty earth mother</a>, thank you! @dusty earth mother, thank you!

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