Ah, a post I pretty much agree with, but there are still differences in my POV.
Take just one example, good food vs. junk food. Junk food pretty clearly causes a lot of chronic health related issues,vs. having a much more healthy diet. But you blame it on the producers/advertisers, whereas I think it rests much more squarely on the consumer. People choose donuts over cabbage because they like them better. It is not a wicked conspiracy.
If you want socialized medicine, with universal coverage, then my healthy diet pocket is being picked by the welfare slob down the street who eats junk. I damn well don't like that. Now true, the government could I suppose add lifestyle clauses of some sort to universal coverage similar to the healthy discounts that some insurers provide now.
The real problem I have with universal coverage/socialized medicine is that the system is reduced to a single entity, and that leads to stagnation. There is only one god in that system, and if the god is lousy, so is the system. For all its faults, the insurance & for profit hospital system has many gods, and if one screws up, there are other choices. |
