Re: Health insurance or the lack there of...

Bwmbagus wrote:
This is discussion, not the real world.

I'm here dealing with a job, children, a disabled spouse, and other health problems. I don't have that much time for airyfairy theorizing.

You can't justify bad behaviour

What bad behavior? Acting like ants when others act like grasshoppers?

on the basis that people are like that. That is true cynisism.

In economics, these are called "free rider" or "public goods" or "commons" problems. The foremost economist on these problems was a Brit - Ronald Coase. All of his writings have been reprinted several times.

To make no effort to tackle this problem is not exactly humane either.
It is the job of government to tqckle issues such as these surely.

Not necessarily. As I wrote before, you are approaching the issue from a statist ideology.


As for smelling the coffee, I am no idealist, I want to see action, not ideology.

You will neither smell coffee nor see action with your head so far up your arse.


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