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Originally Posted by Jito463
Instead, you'd rather that people be forced to pay for the medicine under threat of jail time. Because that's what the IRS threatens if you don't pay your taxes, which is the primary source of money for what you're proposing. Is that "Christian"? To threaten people with jail if they don't pay for someone else's treatment?
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Over simplification.
Since people without insurance can just go to the ER and not pay the bill, it is unfair to those who are insured to have that loss passed down to them by providers and increased premiums. The only just way of dealing with the issue is to have EVERYONE pay into the system, since it is available to EVERYONE.
Or, we can turn away the sick and dying who can't pay and allow them to die on the sidewalks outside of the ER.
The most significant reason that your premiums are so high is because you already are paying for people to receive care. People who turn around and either don't or can't pay the bill. At least with Single Payer, every able bodied American pays something into the system for any care they receive or might potentially need.