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If a national health service is an excuse to tell people how to live, I've pretty happy Obama fucked it all up here and just institutionalized health insurers.

• tamana 11y ago
  The people drinking themselves to shit aren't honorably refusing healthcare for their self inflicted injuries
  • jedmeyers 11y ago
    Well, then make them pay for themselves then insead of limiting the range of activities they are allowed to do.
  • chrisbennet 11y ago
    How about the people who engage in that big killer - sedentary lifestyles? If you want to sit in front of a computer all, day, why should everyone else pay for your lifestyle choice? /s
• theoh 11y ago
  Obama and his advisor Cass Sunstein are ostensibly pursuing "libertarian paternalism", as is Cameron in the UK. I'm guessing you like the sound of "libertarian". Alcohol consumption is one clear case of people harming themselves. There are a lot of other areas in which the government in fact doesn't know what's best, so I don't think you can generalize about liberties either way.
  • thatcat 11y ago
    Seems like you're using libertarian as a marketing buzzword that has no meaning
    • theoh 11y ago
      It's not me, it's Thaler and Sunstein. I'm left libertarian myself and I'd like to drink less alcohol, personally.