Re: BUSH IN ISREAL

"da pickle" <jcpickels@(nospam)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:tM2dnfo-yeeTTN_V4p2dnAA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Dutch"

I just cut out the error ... you don't have insurance because you choose to not have insurance.

People make meager incomes because they choose to?


Now, we are talking "meager" ... have another classification of those folks?

Those are the folks I have been talking about all along, the working folks living from month to month, struggling to get by.

If the "meager" income is "living in poverty" they are eligible for medicaid.

If they own anything they can sell, they're screwed.

If they have a home and a mortgage and a car (and they are not
trying to live above their "meager" income) their income is meager enough to afford medical insurance.

Either they can afford it or they can't.

How much would comprehensive medical insurance for a family of five cost?

And you skip the "point" that deciding not to have insurance is your choice ... I will be the first to want the disincentives for lowering health insurance costs be removed.

You "assume" too much in your example. It is the small errors up front that make sweeping conclusions unsupported.

You assume too much, starting with the idea that the American people are satisfied with their mammoth, ballooning health care budget that doesn't even attempt to provide decent care to all its citizens.

Back to hyperbole ..

What hyperbole?
Americans are dissatisfied? true
US health care budget is mammoth and ballooning? true
Does not attempt to cover all citizens? true

any problem must immediately be solved by federal takeover. I was watching the TV just the other day and the answer to the "problem" of high gas prices was to take those "excess" profits from the energy companies. Same ***, different day.

If the oil and gas companies are profiteering then the government should look into it.

You still are afraid to admit that you are just another socialist. [There is nothing wrong with being a socialist.]

Depends on what you mean by that. I believe that a vital role of government is to regulate business, and when business is not suited to perform certain roles, government should handle it. That includes national defense, police, fire, libraries, education to a degree, and health insurance. The private dispensation of medical insurance has proven to be unworkable, it ends up being too expensive to provide care for everyone.

When you admit that you "believe" in socialism, we can begin to discuss the relative merits of various solutions to various problems.

Why is so important for you to label me? What does that have to do with the issues?


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