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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (211905)7/23/2009 5:25:55 AM
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<why is health insurance more closely related to paying for fireman than for fire insurance?>

What a great question. When I am in need of police assistance, I have a right to it. I do not have a right to bill the police or government for things that have been stolen from me, but I have a right to seek police assistance.

Same thing for a fire. I have a right to ask for assistance from the fire department to help protect me from injury or death, and to do what they can to save my property, but I cannot ask them to pay for the damage done by the fire.

Insurance compensates you for your loss. Fire and police services offer assistance to prevent or limit the loss.

The confusion about health care is in treating it as insurance at all -- it should be a right of every American citizen to ask for and receive health care assistance to prevent and limit loss. But, just as it is for your house, it is not up to those who provide medical care to compensate you for your loss.

Healthcare should be treated as a basic human right and a public service, just as fire and police and the courts are there for all and offered as a public service. By the way, the same could be said for basic education services, which in America are in utter disarray and will cause the loss of our world standing as an advanced industrial economy.
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