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by aetherson 13y ago
We all get hungry, but we buy food from farmers on the market. We all need shelter, but we're buy our rent our homes. We all need clothing, but we clothing manufacturers are for profit.
There are a variety of good arguments for socialized health care, but "we all get sick" is not among them.
This article is banal in the extreme, and I'm not sure why it's on the front page.
- GuiA 13y agoDo you feel the same about housing projects, food banks, soup kitchens, food stamps, battered women's shelters, etc.?
- aetherson 13y agoDo I feel that there are good arguments for them, but "we all need X" is not a good argument for them? Sure I do. Don't you? That said, note the difference between, say, housing projects or food stamps and a traditional vision of socialized healthcare: it is not expected that 90%+ of the population get most or all of their food from food stamps.
- drewblaisdell 13y ago> There are a variety of good arguments for socialized health care, but "we all get sick" is not among them. I disagree. The more specific "we all can get very sick, and being very sick is very expensive" is a very good argument for pooling our resources to make sure that we all get help when we need it.
- icebraining 13y agoPlaying Devil's advocate, there are other ways of pooling resources, such as insurance or mutual-aid societies, the latter of which were mostly crowded out by state provided healthcare. There was a recent Econtalk podcast which touched on these issues: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/07/michael_lind_on.html http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/07/michael_lind_on.htm...