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To: Alighieri who wrote (619824)	7/17/2011 9:19:15 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1576163

>> the Fed Gov is not mandating the purchase of health insurance for the "common good" ... it is doing so because these people are FREELOADING on the backs of americans who do the responsible thing... So, it is not for the "common good" to eliminate the "freeloading"? That's the point of the "common good" argument. Of course, your ultra-weak argument fails because the rationale is IDENTICAL for requiring obese people to join Weight Watchers. That is, those obese people are "freeloading" off the backs of Americans because large many (in fact, a disproportionate number) are Medicaid and/or Medicaid recipients whose health care is paid for by the taxpayer. In fact, when Obamacare is in full force, fully 25% of the American public will be "freeloading" on the backs of Americans for Medicaid alone, and another 15% are "freeloading" because Medicare is having to pay benefits beyond what they have paid into the system. To make matters worse, these figures will grow exponentially over the coming few decades, a fact which neither CBO nor the Medicare trustees have taken into account. So, please explain how one "common good" (requiring people, many who don't need it, to buy insurance) is better than another "common good" (requiring obese people to lose weight). Is that simple enough for you?