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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (134168)3/22/2010 2:16:15 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (3) of 542958
 
I like to think of the big tradeoff as being between community and liberty. From this perspective, the health reform bill offers more community (all Americans get health insurance, regulated by a centralized authority) and less liberty (insurance mandates, higher taxes). Once again, regardless of whether you are more communitarian or libertarian, a reasonable person should be able to understand the opposite vantagepoint.

Guess it depends on your perspective.

Less liberty:
1. Someone who doesn't want insurance will be "forced" to get it or pay a fine (doesn't auto insurance work like this in most if not all states?)
2. Insurance companies will be "forced" to cover people with pre-existing conditions, and they will be "coerced" into not dropping people who get sick. [However, it isn't clear to me that their rates will be capped--the giant gift to insurance companies.]

More liberty:
1. People who have developed an illness or who have a dependent child who is sick won't be forced to stay in a particular job in order to get or remain insured.
2. Or healthy people who fear loss of insurance if they move to another company will be free from that fear, and have more mobility.

I welcome additions to brief list, in either the "less" or "more" direction.
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