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Wow good points. I’m sure those tens of thousands of people a year who die due to lack of health insurance are so glad nobody got coerced into helping them out.
by java_script 8y ago
Wow good points. I’m sure those tens of thousands of people a year who die due to lack of health insurance are so glad nobody got coerced into helping them out. What a useful definition of liberty, that allows the richest country on earth & in history to deny its citizens preventative care so that they end up dying of easily preventable diseases. We have the liberty to beg on GoFundMe! Health insurance companies have the liberty to insert themselves as middlemen to suck up profits for pushing cash around and denying care!
To not quote a fucking TV magician, “Why not err on the side of every first world nation except us?”.
- creaghpatr 8y agoYou should consider refuting his argument instead of countering with a rant. >Many more people in the US would have access to health care, including insurance for catastrophic events, if the state and federal governments stopped interfering in the supply side.
- java_script 8y agoI really don’t care about how to slightly tweak our current unjust system to make it slightly less bad. The fact that it’s unjust (hence why I’m calling out his moral arguments) makes any details a irrelevant. Like asking “How could the trains to Auschwitz have been more efficient - why won’t you debate me on this?” (Sorry for Godwin’s law-ing) There are alternatives that are picking up support, like Medicare for all, that are worth more time and energy discussing.