The Mendacity of Legislators, Part Two.

[jonfmorse]

The health care debate rages on, and still I watch the news and want to throw up. We've got this brilliant plan to force everyone to have insurance which doesn't even stop to consider the question of who exactly it is that doesn't already have insurance

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[jim000037]

if i may, i recommend:
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594202346/ref=oss_T15_product

the thing that so far has amazed me the most is that at present, we're the only 'first world' nation with for-profit health insurance. Taiwan recently shifted from for-profit to non-profit, and Switzerland went from 'non' to 'for', and there was such a public outcry that they shifted back to 'non'... yeah, to my way of thinking, making insurance a business, rather than a 'service', is the source of a majority of our health insurance issues.

[jonfmorse]

Well, I think insurance should be a business; I'm just coming to the belief that health care shouldn't require "insurance", as it were. I can avoid becoming responsible for an auto accident by not driving. I can avoid the risk of having to replace my home by not owning one. Obviously, I don't need life insurance; that's something you get for your family.

But I can't choose not to require surgery, or to not break my arm, or to not need my tonsils out. If we, as a society, think that it's unconscionable for these things to go untreated, then everyone should have health care; if everyone should have health care, then the government needs to handle it rather than ordering us to line the pockets of corporations at proverbial gunpoint. In essence, I look at it the same way I look at sewers or highways or police protection.