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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: gg cox who wrote (9331)9/12/2009 5:23:41 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
so why can't anti socialism seniors just write a check for their medical costs as they arise, should be no problem if they stick to their true freemarketeer ideals

You've set up a false dichotomy. Insurance, a valuable construct, is the essence of the free market. The choice isn't between socialism and self-insuring. Nobody, even rich people, self insures his homes and vehicles because the catastrophic risk is too great. Insurance makes sense. Capitalists and socialists both use it.

A lot are, and you know it

I realize that there are, indeed, a lot of hypocrites. [There are also a lot of ignorant people. I don't know how many seniors I've talked to that thought their social security checks were returns on what they paid in during their working years. I always tried to set them straight. Mostly they just wouldn't believe me. Sometimes they were chagrined to find that they were on the dole.] In any case, you can't assume than everyone on Medicare is one. The system is set up to preclude free-market alternatives. There is simply no choice. A smart person of whatever political persuasion plays the cards he's dealt while working on changing the way the deck is stacked. Falling on one's sword is rarely constructive.
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