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I'm trying to like you. I like the fact that you mentor college students on how to succeed. What I don't like is the embracing of mindless stereotypes that you embrace (see earlier in the thread).
Okay, since you don't seem to be hearing me out on this, let me make it perfectly clear: I threw out that stupid stereotype as an "in your face tit-for-tat" response to the ridiculous stereotypes YankInScotland was spewing - and did so for the express purpose of exposing the idiocy of such stereotypes. Do you really think I've lived my whole life in Omaha? Or that I never leave this city? Or that I actually believe all people in the British Isles have bad teeth?
So I've had car insurance for 40 years and never had an accident. What difference does that make? I certainly wouldn't drive w/o insurance or not be without medical cover.
apples to oranges
Car insurance is mandatory in most states to protect the harm you might do to others.
Why does Obama want to force everyone to have health insurance ?
If their healthcare is funded by tax, then no one is paying for anyone - it's a big pool of money, allocated to whoever needs it at the time. The right to healthcare doesn't need to be determined by anything, other than the need to treat the sick (rich, poor, lazy, educated, uneducated, male, female, black, white, green or even Martian). I think that's where this country differs from every other nation on earth, where healthcare is considered a right, just like education. The United States is still very backward, in that sense.
Taxes are paid by individuals, sure it is only about half the population but taxes come out of individuals own money. So some will be paying for all.
Medicare shows us that giving people unlimited access to healthcare is highly inflationary. If we do the same with everyone we will have a nation of people who act like they have daddy’s credit card. Human nature proves we need to have a stake in our spending. If not we will spend without regard to cost. Once that happens we will see massive amounts of rationing, social engineering, stigmatizing, stereotyping and potentially the majority dictating what type of people get care and what type don't.
I don't want the lifestyle police watching everything I eat, everything and everyone I do or any other thing the mob dictates.
Taxes are paid by individuals, sure it is only about half the population but taxes come out of individuals own money. So some will be paying for all.
Medicare shows us that giving people unlimited access to healthcare is highly inflationary. If we do the same with everyone we will have a nation of people who act like they have daddy’s credit card. Human nature proves we need to have a stake in our spending. If not we will spend without regard to cost. Once that happens we will see massive amounts of rationing, social engineering, stigmatizing, stereotyping and potentially the majority dictating what type of people get care and what type don't.
I don't want the lifestyle police watching everything I eat, everything and everyone I do or any other thing the mob dictates.
Reminds me what an old veterinarian said at my farm once-------" usually the farmer who tells me to spare no expense in treating his cow is the guy who stiffs me on the bill"
I've been to Cuba.. Ive seen the conditions people live in. It is SAFER and CLEANER to be sick in the streets in Cuba, than to be sick in the hospitals there.. I will gladly take my capitalist American healthcare system over any other health care system any day. I will gladly pay top dollar for the best care that I can afford.
Reminds me what an old veterinarian said at my farm once-------" usually the farmer who tells me to spare no expense in treating his cow is the guy who stiffs me on the bill"
I do think that most supporters of universal healthcare never think about the unintended consequences of what they are asking for. I know their hearts are in the right place, believe me I would love to have others pay my care. I pay 1/4 of my income towards premiums and co pays right now.
But when you look at who pays taxes and what the potential for abuse of a universal system is, you can't be for it. Once the cost skyrockets and the tax payers can't take it any more they will revolt with personal life controls. Once we devolve to a majority rule system in all areas of life, those free spirits who yell for universal care will become slaves to the mob who dictates their every move.
I've been to Cuba.. Ive seen the conditions people live in. It is SAFER and CLEANER to be sick in the streets in Cuba, than to be sick in the hospitals there.. I will gladly take my capitalist American healthcare system over any other health care system any day. I will gladly pay top dollar for the best care that I can afford.
I think you will find that those who push for government care want the best that money can buy and they want it for free. As you show, you can't have both.
The point is our Healthcare system is the best in the world. The cost of this quality is the problem.
We don't have a health care problem we have a cost problem. The choice we have is expensive top quality care for the majority or less expensive mediocre, rationed care for all.
We could have things like status change insurance to help reduce cost and we could allow cross state insurance but it won't make our cost "free". There is no such thing as free. So our choice is to we want quality or cheap?
Nothing is free! You are so right. So many, however, are willing to pay for this with their personal freedom.
Nothing is free! You are so right. So many, however, are willing to pay for this with their personal freedom.
Not just theirs but yours and mine.
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I've had car insurance for 40 years and never had an accident. What difference does that make? I certainly wouldn't drive w/o insurance or not be without medical cover.
