Required Health Insurance?

[Satya]

Military is not socialist

The state owns the military. The state controls the means of production and allocation of resources within the military. That, by definition, is socialism.

car insurance is not required because I am not required to own a car.

True, if you don't own a car, then you can't get into an accident and be a social and economic burden to the rest of society. Therefore, you don't need to buy auto insurance.

However, if you get sick and you were uninsured, then you would likely become a social and economic burden to the rest of society, unless society decided to not provide you health care services and let you die. However, I imagine you find it more moral for society to refuse you health care if you don't buy insurance and to allow you to wander around sick and infect others before you finally die rather than to compel you to buy insurance. And FYI, you aren't required to buy health insurance. You simply pay a fine if you don't.

You are wrong, and your logic is obtuse at best.

What is obtuse about my logic? You made the charge that socialistic principles have not lead to the increased standard for living for most people in this country, and I cited three examples of where they have. I'm sorry that facts and reason don't support your ideology.

Feel free to provide any valid evidence of how requiring health insurance will ruin the country. So far all you have supplied is your opinion.

 

[Faye]

Billy, I am sorry, but socialism makes my penis very erect. I can't help it. Have you seen Rosa Luxembourg?

This guy is really hot too. I might turn gay for him.





Satya, I think what you're saying is probably more likely and practical. I don't fully understand the issue (nobody does, because in order to understand the issue, you must understand the financial crisis, and nobody fully understands the financial crisis- especially the people responsible). I think the problem is ultimately that we have a system which fails to include many people adequately and that purposely excludes many people. I would view required health insurance as yet another manifestation of that problem because if required health insurance were to work like required car insurance, many people would still fail to acquire it and that doesn't really solve the problem. The concept of required health insurance seems to me to be more of a liability reassurance than a proposal actually geared towards helping people. The hospitals and health care practitioners (especially the predatory ones) can still get their money or the person will be penalized by default with required health care; but how could we ensure that more people (ideally everyone) would be covered in a competitive and greed driven market? I don't how blatant hospitals are now in throwing people out of them to die.