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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (646)	4/16/2005 7:06:19 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Define "entitled". Define "right". Define "wrong".

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (646)	4/17/2005 12:52:47 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Are all people entitled to equal medical care? No. Is it right or wrong that people could be allowed to purchase medical care that is not available to people with less disposable financial resources? It is not wrong. If it is right, should people be able to purchase medical insurance that has no limits? Yes, with the understanding that any insurance has a limit even if it is only the amount of funds that the insurance company can raise. should people be able to purchase medical insurance that has specific limits (and save premiums)? yes Should companies be allowed to offer a choice of great and terrible insurance to their employees? Yes. Why or why not? Because they should be allowed to offer whatever they want to the employees as long as the employees agee to it. That answer might not be much of a "why", but basically I consider the default answer to be that people or companies should be allowed to do something. You want to restrict them then you have to show some good reason for the restriction. Tim