It’s gotta happen.

This is not your grandparents’ Democrat party.

Who are these millions of people?

Could it be that some elect not to be insured?

Your absurd discourse on entitlement has become tiresome.
Your manner of excessive extrapolation and exaggeration is not worthy of any more of my time. Sorry.

How about public schools? Should you only pay when you send your kids, and should you not be able to send your kids if you can’t pay?

We should do away with “public” schools and privatize the whole system. All parents should be provided with vouchers that are worth the exact same amount of money regardless of where you decide to send your child to school, whether it be college-prep, vocational, religious, or gay.

Comparing education to the health care system is apples and oranges. In general, a student is a student and it cost the same to education Student A at school 1 as it does to education Student B at school 1. With healthcare, patient needs vary from person to person. Thus, treating patient A at clinic 1 will not cost the same at treating patient B at clinic 1.

Since we are supposedly “free” in this country, that freedom should include the freedom to choose NOT to buy health insurance with the understanding, that failing to do so leaves the burden to pay for your care on yourself. If the government really wants to make it affordable for everybody, they would tackle the so-called “red herring” of medical malpractice awards. Limit them to purely pecuniary losses, with NO punitive damages, NO pain and suffering, NO paying lawyers via contingency fees. Doing those few things would allow providers to offer extremely low-cost basic emergency type health insurance that nearly anyone could afford.

Then, if we absolutely, as a society, want to make sure every single person is covered, regardless of their ability to pay, the government could provide a “safety net” type policy for the very poor who could not even afford the most basic private coverage. As a point of fact, there are several states that already do this (Oregon being one of them). The number of people that would have to be provided for would be greatly reduced and we wouldn’t have to tax the crap out of the tax-paying portion of our population to pay for it.

Going to a national system of “required” health insurance makes a mockery of freedom and, if provided by the government, will come with so many government strings attached that it will make “freedom” nothing more than a fantasy. The government has PROVEN that is exactly what will happen by the way the handled the TARP program. You take the TARP money (and you WILL! – even if you don’t want to) and the president gets to fire your CEO, set your compensation levels, decide how you will advertise your products, etc. etc. etc. The same thing will happen if you take government provided “health insurance” (and you WILL – even if you don’t want to) Personally, I don’t want the government telling me how many Big-Macs I can eat in a year.

Pay as you go private fire departments and police departments? They already exist. Private security firms, body guards, mall cops, private detectives, private alarm companies, gated communities with private fire departments, etc. absolutely abound in this country! Live under a rock or what?

But, talk about red herrings.

Sheesh!

Asked and answered. You haven’t. A newspaper route is not a “real job.”

Blake on June 10, 2009 at 11:19 PM

Ha ha ha! I wonder how many more of those you can come up with.

How would you know Blake that I have never held a real job?

mycowardice on June 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM

Asked and answered. You haven’t. A newspaper route is not a “real job.”

The SOLUTION: Force Americans to pay for doctors, hospitals, medicine, and a huge government bureaucracy.

IOW “pay your own way if you want something” if that’s not too difficult for your limited comprehension.

viking01 on June 10, 2009 at 10:43 PM

That hilosophy will get you a nation much like the ‘Great’ Britain Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters novelized – a cruel caste system based on financial power.

IOW “pay your own way if you want something” if that’s not too difficult for your limited comprehension.

viking01 on June 10, 2009 at 10:43 PM

Is health care the only place you apply this philosophy?

How about the police? Should you pay every time the cops help you?

How about public schools? Should you only pay when you send your kids, and should you not be able to send your kids if you can’t pay?

How about the fire department? Should there be a membership where they will only go and save your house if you paid your membership fees?

I get “pay your own way if you want something”, I also get that somethings should be built in our system and we should assume that everyone will need them one way or another. (and therefore account for it)

No you silly oaf. I’m saying that just because someone wants something does not mean they are entitled.

IOW “pay your own way if you want something” if that’s not too difficult for your limited comprehension.

“I will not have Lobbyist in my administration”

…just Unions & Czars who answer only to me…

Not sure, but how many of the countries you are comparing us to have private education systems?

mycowardice on June 10, 2009 at 10:19 PM

Not the point.

Our health system is “bad” because, supposedly out health care figures are lower than other countries with public health systems while ours is private. But yet, Canadians and Britains come HERE to get surgeries performed because their own systems are overloaded and everybody knows our health system is top notch.

But it must be the “private” part that makes it suck… right?

And yet, we spend more on our public schools than any other nation, including those with public school systems and our education system… sucks. Factually.

Ergo… Going to a public system doesn’t make it better and certainly may make it worse.