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It doesn't seem to make much sense letting sour grapes direct policy. For example, I eat healthy and exercise every day. I could complain that virtually nobody
by always_good 9y ago
It doesn't seem to make much sense letting sour grapes direct policy.
For example, I eat healthy and exercise every day. I could complain that virtually nobody else does yet I'm effectively stuck in the same insurance pool as them. And I could use this to forever resent a single-payer system as well. But that's just silly.
Or something like "Ugh, I didn't eat pizzas every night because I had no health insurance. It's unfair if everyone gets healthcare for free! Think of all those pizzas I missed out on!"
- troydavis 9y ago> Or something like "Ugh, I didn't eat pizzas every night because I had no health insurance. It's unfair if everyone gets healthcare for free! Think of all those pizzas I missed out on!" Since this proposal is debt-specific and retroactive, the analogy would be something like: "It's unfair if everyone gets all debt for prior health expenses repaid. Not their actual health expenses (however they were paid for), nor a reasonable health expense, but instead, whatever part of their health expenses are currently outstanding as debt."