Pima
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The reason I asked about that position is from the position that as taxpayers I doubt we will be paying just for the rescue, but also all of their healthcare bills too. Do you really think that they had health insurance?
If you say they should not be billed for the rescue because otherwise others will wait longer to be rescued and a higher risk, than the same can be said when we absorb that million dollar hospital bill because of this trip or at least be said because under the ACA everyone can be insured supposedly at a low cost. Hence my question.
I was not trying to compare apples to oranges, I was trying see if LITS felt this way all around from a cost perspective, or just from the perspective of risking lives of those performing the rescue.
If they had no health insurance, it is just even more proof of how irresponsible they are as adults and parents.
As the OP this thread was created just as much about the military rescuing the family as it was about the parents recklessness and the costs that we as taxpayers will pay for every bill that they may skate out of due to the system. I was not diverting the thread if you go back and read my post, a lot had to do with the parents and the costs.
The parents have come out and now are defending their decision, and in a way throwing a pity party because they lost their home, I.e. their boat since it appears that the boat was abandoned at sea. I bet they had insurance on that.loss.
Again, this is not their first failed attempt. It is their second within two years. I am willing to bet they will go for a third and a fourth or a fifth until one of two things occur. They sucssefully accomplish their goal and make news again....the nanana moment to the world, or the g forbid news with a loss of life. I don't remember the man's name, but they now remind me of the guy who wanted to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon only to go down and die close to success. He tried over and over again because that was his dream. He left behind a family that loved him very much. How much do you want to bet they wish they could have talked him out of it. Maybe an insane bill from a failed attempt would have stopped him and he could be alive today.
If you say they should not be billed for the rescue because otherwise others will wait longer to be rescued and a higher risk, than the same can be said when we absorb that million dollar hospital bill because of this trip or at least be said because under the ACA everyone can be insured supposedly at a low cost. Hence my question.
I was not trying to compare apples to oranges, I was trying see if LITS felt this way all around from a cost perspective, or just from the perspective of risking lives of those performing the rescue.
If they had no health insurance, it is just even more proof of how irresponsible they are as adults and parents.
As the OP this thread was created just as much about the military rescuing the family as it was about the parents recklessness and the costs that we as taxpayers will pay for every bill that they may skate out of due to the system. I was not diverting the thread if you go back and read my post, a lot had to do with the parents and the costs.
The parents have come out and now are defending their decision, and in a way throwing a pity party because they lost their home, I.e. their boat since it appears that the boat was abandoned at sea. I bet they had insurance on that.loss.
Again, this is not their first failed attempt. It is their second within two years. I am willing to bet they will go for a third and a fourth or a fifth until one of two things occur. They sucssefully accomplish their goal and make news again....the nanana moment to the world, or the g forbid news with a loss of life. I don't remember the man's name, but they now remind me of the guy who wanted to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon only to go down and die close to success. He tried over and over again because that was his dream. He left behind a family that loved him very much. How much do you want to bet they wish they could have talked him out of it. Maybe an insane bill from a failed attempt would have stopped him and he could be alive today.
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