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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (14338)4/2/2012 1:07:08 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
I can understand why you would not want to say any more about your situation. But it is this cognitive dissonance between what you say and what you do that is the thesis of our problem.

My so called cognitive dissonance is both a fiction, and irrelevant. My personal mental state (even if by some miracle you got it right, which I think may have vaguely happened once out of all the times you've tried to talk about what I think or feel), is irrelevant to the political issue.

Your not having health insurance means the rest of society has to pay for your irresponsible behavior.

"Uninsured" doesn't mean "not paying for your own medical care".

"Insured" also doesn't mean "not having other people pay for your medical care". Those with insurance pass the cost off to others, the insurance pays for it, which means other people are paying for it with their premiums. Its a reasonable cost transference since the others agreed to it, they contracted to pool the risk; but its still other people paying for it.

And if I had subsidized insurance the rest of society would still be paying (paying for the subsidy). And if we had single payer government provided insurance the rest of society would still be paying (through taxes). And if we mandate that insurance companies pay for people that they didn't voluntarily contract to cover the rest of society is still paying (in lost freedom, and in higher premiums because of the money forced out of the insurance company to pay for those people's treatments).

Unless you self insure its all about other people paying.

And unless you either self insure or voluntarily buy insurance from a company that voluntarily sells it to you for a market rate, its all about other people being forced to pay.
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