LL,
I think every single person should be responsible for his or her own health, and I can see a need for a safety net for people who fail to keep themselves healthy, and at the same time fail to financially prepare for old age.
But I am against the socialized medicine approach, and by socialized, I mean both components - absolving everyone from responsibility for their own health, and from the health related financial responsibilities.
Subsequently, the safety net I am for is a Yugo safety net, not a BMW version. It has to be bad, it has to suck, so that there is an incentive for people not to be on this Yugo health care. So I am against all of the "upgrades" of the Yugo plans.
Joe
PS: as far as keeping people healthy or curing them, unfortunately, with the sorry shape the medical profession is in, it is not even on their agenda. The agenda is hiding symptoms with drugs and capturing ever larger percentage of GDP in this scheme, while hopefully keeping people sick, because these sick voters will demand more and more dollars to pay their drug dealers. |
