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

To: gg cox who wrote (6010)	2/11/2009 11:36:36 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If you choose not to buy health insurance, and end up in the hospital for 6 months, have you harmed others? Of course not. No more so that if I choose not to buy flood insurance and my house washes away. Perhaps one could try to make the case that, if I can't afford to rebuild, my bare foundation has created an eyesore for my neighbors, but that's a bit of a stretch.

To: gg cox who wrote (6010)	2/11/2009 6:52:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"If you choose not to buy health insurance, and in up in the hospital for 6 months, have you harmed others?" No Because as Lane pointed out, you can lack insurance but still pay. Also if you don't have the funds to pay, its not you that are making other people pay. If a government program pays, than that program is forcing people to pay with tax money. If a government requirement forces people to care for you without payment, than its that government requirement that's making people pay and thus harming them. It can be argued that such programs and/or requirements are a good thing, but even if they are on the net good, they still cause some harm, and making people pay these costs is a big part of the harm.