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Friday, March 07, 2008

Nationalized Health Care Serves No Public Good

Megan McArdle:

We force everyone to pay into fire departments because fires have very bad negative externalities: if your house catches on fire, unless you live on a rural farm, there’s a good chance that your neighbor’s house will burn down too. Fire prevention is a genuine public good; most health care, with the exception of things meant to stop the spread of infectious disease, simply isn’t.

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Correct.  The only public good for Health care should be the possibility of spreading communicable diseases and even some such as those involving risky sexual behaviors are a choice, and should be the responsibility of those persons involved with those behaviors.


Communism is evil

Chief RZ on March 7, 2008 at 02:41 pm
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Absolutely. Why do we want people to be able to be healthy and not have to worry whether they can get health coverage without going broke? What kind of shitty society would we have if people didn’t have to worry about going bankrupt because they get cancer and the corporate insurance pigshits are too busy figuring out ways NOT to cover the people that are paying the insane premiums? How shitty would it be if I wanted to start my own business, but am enslaved to my current job because venturing out on my own is too risky?

Socialist on March 7, 2008 at 03:21 pm

How shitty would it be if I wanted to start my own business, but am enslaved to my current job because venturing out on my own is too risky?


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on March 7, 2008 at 03:29 pm

Socialist.  I checked your link, but it is virtually blank.  Insurance--a shared risk before an the fact.  Health insurance in pools of people who have decided to practise safe health habits are fairly cheap.  I paid about $200 per month for BX/BS for full family including delivery.  Be honest.  There are quite a few people out there who refuse to purchase insurance.  Some even don’t get insurance for autos.  They live on their cuff, spending all their money on “wine, women, and song”.  Then when tough times come along, usually because of choices they have made, they want OP Other People to pay for their mistakes.  Do you like paying for other people to party every day, not pay their water bills, not pay their electricity, rent, insurance, or gas bills?  It is called personal responsibility.
There are many different health insurance plans.  I prefer PPO because I can choose which doctor to see, when to see them and it is my choice.  It costs more than managed care types.  There are catastrophic plans, minimum pay plans, nominal plans, group plans and individual plans.  Take your pick or....
wait in line for the dole (emergency rooms).  Questions?


Communism is evil

Chief RZ on March 7, 2008 at 03:30 pm

How shitty would it be if I wanted to start my own business, but am enslaved to my current job because venturing out on my own is too risky?

As I was about to say… before my fingers slipped… when you think about it, this is an astoundingly revealing statement.  Of all the inane leftist drivel posted here, by Socialist and others, nothing so epitomizes a liberal’s neurotic distrust and disdain for the joys, and risks, of freedom as this one statement.

Finally, Socialist, you’ve posted something worthwhile.  Though I hardly think your real accomplishment here was intentional.

Of course its risky!  That’s the point.  And that’s why the reward is worth the effort… and then some!


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on March 7, 2008 at 03:38 pm
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