01-13-2010, 09:26 PM
TLB wrote: I haven't done any research on "gamer"s and would be interested in their numbers.
I'm sure many of those people don't think of themselves as "gamers", though I have met folks who refuse to get health insurance and have said things like "they can't turn me away if I get really sick". Many people are simply in denial that they need doctors or hospitals or any healthcare at all. Chances are that most of them won't need much of that while they are young and apparently healthy (but even being young doesn't work for everybody). The problem is that if the only people who get health insurance are the "well-employed", sick and elderly then we get a system like the one we have now. Combine that with a recession that increases unemployment and we get the disaster that we are currently living through.
I watched a really good PBS documentary (Frontline: Sick Around America) on this situation the other day. If you have a netflix subscription you can access it online for free (or probably at PBS without needing netflix).