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In a free market, whenever it is financially rational to insure someone, it would happen. Which is why healthcare-as-insurance is so perverse. So, someone pro
by CountSessine 14y ago
In a free market, whenever it is financially rational to insure someone, it would happen.
Which is why healthcare-as-insurance is so perverse.
So, someone probably couldn't get insurace that covers their preexisting condition (which wouldn't be fair to the insurer), but they could get coverage for other things.
Would you perhaps like to volunteer at a hospital some time? Maybe you could explain objectivist principles to parents with children born with 'pre-existing conditions' like spina bifida or taysach's syndrome? Explain that they'll have to deal with a child's debilitating illness without financial aid? Maybe you could read Atlas Shrugged during storytime at a children's cancer ward? You could explain to all of those little 'Takers' how unfair their treatment is to their parent's insurance companies?
- javert 14y agoIf you want to make an intellectual point, don't say something mocking and hyperbolic. Be honest about what you really believe. Be willing to defend it. Say, "I demand that you practice altruism. I am going to force you to be good, by my definition of good, at the point of a gun." I would want to help someone with spina bifida, but I would not want to do it because you force me to at gunpoint, while simultaneously creating a system where I myself can't get the healthcare I can actually pay for.