Is healthcare as important as a safety net for the old?
So, I think you're saying that health care is important ergo it should be provided by the feds. I need more than that. Lots of things are important. Why this is more important than they are, so important that we must communally provide it, eludes me.
If it's so important, then why are there so many uninsured who could pay for insurance. It's because they think some other use of their money is more important. They buy housing, cable TV, vacations in Cancun, gym memberships, drinks with the boys/girls, education, or whatever with the money. Which means the "whatever" is more important to them.
The current system sucks...
Once again, I agree. The question is whether what you want will fix it. I say it won't. It will fix some things, not fix others, and will inevitably introduce a whole new set of anticipated and unanticipated problems, unintended consequences. If you just focus on the things it will fix, you risk escaping the frying pan for the fire. You have to think it all the way through. |
