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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (14200)3/31/2012 10:41:08 PM
From: TimF3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
Not having health insurance != die

I've been insured for most of my life, but I've been without since September or October. As far as I can tell I'm still alive.

The thesis is setting up a system where no one dies for lack of health insurance.

People don't die from lack of health insurance. They do sometimes die when health care could have prevented it, but health care and health insurance are two different things. The end goal is access to health care not to insurance. Health insurance is only one way to achieve that goal, and if you screw up the insurance for the majority, in order to cover a minority (and not everyone, at least not under Obamacare) you have probably made things worse.
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