Opinion - Personal Accountability in Socialized Health Care - v 2.0
1) Basic Medical Care should be a right, but extraordinary care should remain a privilege. The challenge is to be able to accept the life and death reality of this triage and figuring out where to draw the line.
2) Health habits must have an effect on the cost of health care for the INDIVIDUAL. Example: Smokers and physically unfit must buy a ( Read more... )
As a service announcement to those who dislike this argument:
I see where this argument leads "Government got involved and it collapsed therefore the government should never get involved."
This is flawed as government involvement does not equate to failure (unless your post office, police, firefighters and highways are).
As for the case of banking, F&F are/were government SPONSORED entities. They just got the money, and no regulations. (http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv29n3/v29n3-3.pdf)
When it came to light that there was a need for regulations the 2005 Administration voted against.
http://www.house.gov/financialservices/Timeframe%20for%20Fannie.pdf
Back to health care,
It has been an interesting line that arises when looking at the cost of a life. Death is part of the life cycle (not that I want to be cycled through just yet) but there has to be some line where people stop being selfish and think reasonably. What if you get cancer, could you afford that under either the private or public health care scenarios? What if you get a bad infection, such as pneumonia or swine flu, which would you prefer, public or private health care insurance?
It is my opinion that people just don't have the ability to think ahead. The public health care system would take an investment, and far too many people do not understand the strength of investing or saving. Once we get over that hump this discussion will become alot easier.
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