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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4811)	2/22/2008 5:36:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If the citizen is making a contribution towards healthcare it's not a freebie. The government contribution is a freebie. If I pay $20k and the government picks up the rest of the cost for me to have a new Corvette, than I'm still getting a freebie from the government, even if that freebie is just a large check rather than a totally free Vette. Yes health care is a lot more important than everyone having a Vette, but that doesn't change the point. It might be used to argue that people should get a freebie, but not that they aren't getting one if the government is picking up the tab. And if people are paying out of their paycheck they will often see the goods as free when they get them. Copays aren't quite as bad here but if your copay is only a fraction of the cost people still see themselves as getting something that they don't want to give up. I'm not stuck on the word "freebie" if you hate it so much, some other word could be used, but people don't want to stop receiving benefits paid for by someone else's taxes.