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Originally Posted by tambourine-man
Dangerously close to the 'S-word', legion. Careful mate, you'll be castrated with your hammer and sickle if you say it out loud.  |
SOCIALIZED MEDICAL CARE!!! Are you insane?
You seem to be confused about the word "paid" --and "deposit"(national debt)-- But socialism "takes". It isn't hard to figure that the people who take care of their health will be punished and the people who ruin their health will be rewarded.
The U.S. has all sorts of voluntary insurance programs for people to protect themselves from large unforseen medical expenses but the term insurance has been hijacked to mean subsidy and since someone has to pay the subsidy the premiums have gotten exorbantly large and it really ends up shifting the cost from the recipient to the premium payer(usually employers and government) until the payers rebel, the providers get shortchanged and start gouging and things degenerate into a mess.
I could really get into the economics and fairness but it simply boils down to the old maxim: if you want more of something subsidize it and if you want less of it tax it. If you want more sick people, even people pretending to be sick and scamming the system and hypochondriacs wasting money and resources, subsidize them.