Health Care Tyranny
Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 2 months ago to Legislation
Sorry, but I have to get this off my chest.
Yet another idiot has put forward the argument that the collective has the right to force me to buy health insurance, or Obamacare, because people go to the emergency room without insurance and it ends up costing people with insurance more.
I so badly want to get in the person's face when they say that, "Easy solution; make it legal for emergency rooms of hospitals to turn people who can't pay out into the street. Let them die in the street if they can't pay."
The response would be, of course, horror. But, this little assertion makes the issue clear; they are NOT, in fact, paying for the health care of the uninsured. They are paying for the luxury of a society where people are *not* left in the street to die. They are paying for the luxury of having their conscience soothed.
If I pass a law requiring diners to feed people who are hungry but can't pay, I cannot then later try to control what they eat because it is costing the other patrons more.
Progressive insurance tries this same collectivist BS, with their commercials complaining about "rate suckers"; portraying people who don't let Progressive monitor and control their driving habits as parasites on the good little obedient drones who do.
This time the idiot actually made the mistake of saying, "...if they go into the emergency room without healthcare..." well... why would you go into the emergency room if you already *had* healthcare? That's what you go to a hospital for; to get health care. It's health *insurance*, he meant, but the idiots keep trying to conflate the two.
Hm... who's the bigger parasite... the guy who goes to the emergency room to save his life when he doesn't have the money to pay for it, or the collectivist who passes laws requiring the hospital to treat him at the expense of other people's tax dollars?
Yet another idiot has put forward the argument that the collective has the right to force me to buy health insurance, or Obamacare, because people go to the emergency room without insurance and it ends up costing people with insurance more.
I so badly want to get in the person's face when they say that, "Easy solution; make it legal for emergency rooms of hospitals to turn people who can't pay out into the street. Let them die in the street if they can't pay."
The response would be, of course, horror. But, this little assertion makes the issue clear; they are NOT, in fact, paying for the health care of the uninsured. They are paying for the luxury of a society where people are *not* left in the street to die. They are paying for the luxury of having their conscience soothed.
If I pass a law requiring diners to feed people who are hungry but can't pay, I cannot then later try to control what they eat because it is costing the other patrons more.
Progressive insurance tries this same collectivist BS, with their commercials complaining about "rate suckers"; portraying people who don't let Progressive monitor and control their driving habits as parasites on the good little obedient drones who do.
This time the idiot actually made the mistake of saying, "...if they go into the emergency room without healthcare..." well... why would you go into the emergency room if you already *had* healthcare? That's what you go to a hospital for; to get health care. It's health *insurance*, he meant, but the idiots keep trying to conflate the two.
Hm... who's the bigger parasite... the guy who goes to the emergency room to save his life when he doesn't have the money to pay for it, or the collectivist who passes laws requiring the hospital to treat him at the expense of other people's tax dollars?
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