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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: quehubo who wrote (63355)5/4/2008 5:02:41 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542214
 
I'm more than a little lost with this post, q.

I'm not opposed to sin taxes though I am more concerned with what the tax is used for than the existence of the tax. It alone won't stop the "sinning." And there is always the problem of who gets to decide what is a "sin."

As for the rest of the post, I assume you are arguing that a universal health care system would reduce an already abysmally low level of individual responsibility. For one's health.

Perhaps. But let me add a context to that context. The number of folk who simply can't afford health care insurance and/or, for that matter, health care. It's bad and growing worst even as you and I type. So that's one concern--the concern for our fellow human beings.

But there are two others. The first is proper plans will lower health care costs because it will reduce back end health costs with front end visits to doctors. And, second, it will reduce the exposure all of us have to truly deadly diseases that go untreated and undetected until it's too late.
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