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> 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
by 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...