03-23-2010, 07:57 AM
Quote:Don't want to purchase health insurance? No problem. Just help us defray the costs associated with that risky choice.
So why not just tell them they have to buy? You know that not every person is smart enough to make all the right choices, what is next? Throw people that are stupid enough not to buy insurance directly in a volcano?
I understand your point, and the point that many people make, I just find it a bit subjective.
Your government also decides for you if you have an abortion (which is no you are not), your government decides for you you are not allowed to use the drugs of your liking and your government decides you are not allowed to take a suicide pill if you are tired of life.
No I know kandrathe would agree with me here that those things are also wrong, but I think most republicans that voted against this bill would find it perfectly normal that guns are allowed, drugs are not, euthanasia is not etc. etc.
Point is that everybody makes up his own mind on things he likes to see illegal and things he likes to see legal.
Taking this point of 'health care for everybody' as trampling on human rights seems strange to me.
We have the same rule in Holland (you have to buy health insurance), and in Sweden it is all ran by the state.
These countries are not less free than the US.
And as has been mentioned before our health care system is not much more expensive than the one in the US.