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We cannot afford the underfunded and un-funded mandates for the social programs we have now, and your solution is to SPEND MORE MONEY? You do know where they get the money for this stuff, right? They take it from people who work at jobs and feed their families, and when that's not enough, they print it off of presses just like it was Monopoly money.
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Wrong. Funding for Medicare and Medicaid would be transfered into a national health insurance program funding the program nearly 60%. Taxes needed to pay for the rest of the program would be less than your insurance primium. For example, right now in the private market my insurance primum is $365 a month. The only increase in my taxes to sustain the system would be $110 a month. Please note...with a national health insurance system my primiums as paid now would go away. I would actually walk away with $255 extra dollars in my pocket every month! I'd keep more of my money in a national health insurance program.
[quote]If you were to use the same tactics to fund your health insurance on a local, microeconomic level, you'd go to jail. Specifically, walking over to your neighbor's house with a gun and confiscating a sum of money for your insurance premium and "administrative overhead." But having a law passed so that a police officer and an IRS agent do your dirty work for you, now somehow that's
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Baloney. How is it ethical to use tax dollars for anything then? Someone will always wish not to have their tax dollars spent on something. I guess everyone's being robbed. Maybe we should shut down the government and become an anarchy. Get realistic here bro. We're talking about Health Insurance. It's not like a car or computer. It's health. Do sick people have a basic human right to health care that can save their lives. Last year an estimated 18,000 Americans died because they couldn't afford health insurance. What was their only crime? Being poor.
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Your faith in the efficiency and benevolence of government bureaucracy is both quaint and horrifying at the same time.
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Would you like to visit a Canadian forum and talk with some Canadians about this with me?
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