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The problem with the left mentality on healthcare
Topic Started: Jun 17 2012, 06:06 AM (124 Views)
Mikhailoh
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Healthcare.gov has a new ad on TV talking about the wonders of the healthcare bill. In it a retired gentleman is talking about how he gets preventive care 'and the best part is it's all FREE!'.

It's free, folks. :doh:
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bachophile
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actually i was thinking about this the other day...

psychologically its a bit different to say you are buying health insurance, than getting taxed and having the taxes cover your health care, even if the net cost is the same.

obviously the main difference is one of choice.

but today i dont think a person can actually choose to defer health insurance, because like it or not he will get treated somewhere at some public health care facility and that will be covered by everyone elses taxes, basically at the expense of everyone else, so he is not choosing not to be insured, just choosing to have everyone else pay for it.

for example, my health insurance is basically taxes, but i walk around thinking i have free health care because i can walk into any clinic or hospital armed with nothing more than ID and im covered. that feels like "free" even if its not really.
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Copper
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Jun 17 2012, 10:13 AM

obviously the main difference is one of choice.

And the consequences of that choice.

You can buy a lot of coverage or a little or none.

There is a difference.

Then in addition to insurance products there are many healthcare products.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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