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

To: gg cox who wrote (36174)	4/24/2014 8:29:13 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

While I have no party affiliation, it is a bit difficult for me to understand why I should be required to buy health insurance for other people. I could see paying for Medicaid for people who were poor. I cannot see paying for it for people who should be able to take care of themselves. And I cannot see subsidizing a family of four making $95,000/year. That is plenty of money with which a family of four can pay for its own health insurance. If they can't, then their priorities are wrong, which isn't or shouldn't be my problem or that of my kids. The purpose of such subsidies is subject to question and someone ought to be called on to explain why my kids are going deeply into debt to pay them.

To: gg cox who wrote (36174)	4/25/2014 5:41:48 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I "get,," that taxpayer funded health care is for rare and costly events, flu shots, all child immunizations,daily mundane medical problems, surgeries and a lube job if one needs one,, I get that, too. But I recognize that taxpayer funded health care, a government welfare program, is inconsistent with the concept of insurance, a financial tool to manage risk. They are two different things. Conflating them corrupts each, muddies thinking about them, and feeds the sorry state of political discourse about them.