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ALL insurance, private, government run, whatever; home, auto, health... It's ALL some people paying for others. If it wasn't, health insurance would be like a big savings account and you'd only be able to get out what you had to that point put in.
i've yet to be in a car accident since being on my own auto insurance 10yrs ago. That money that i paid in premiums went to people who did have accidents in the meantime. If i get in a serious accident, involving more money than i've ever paid out, others will be paying for meAdditionally, PonyBoy, you harp on DrBombay for being too emotional about all this (and certainly, he does get fired up an awful lot) but you seem pretty fired up as well. Why? What is the situation you are in that makes you so against health care reform?
And on a purely philosophical note (read: bereft of actual facts), shouldn't we seek to grow into the kind of society where we DO take care of each other more? Yeah, there's a lot of growing up to do as a society in order to get to that place, but do you honestly think the "Every man for himself" model would garner the best result over time?
- i feel like you've menioned the answer to paragraph 2 somewhere, but i can't be arsed o find itlocustsloth
- i'm fired up because people use emotional experiences and forgo the logic to simply leave it as 'you're heartless'.PonyBoy