No, I am arguing that we need to tread carefully with this, lest we end up in the situation where only those who can afford insurance are those who do not need it. And then a clamor will rise for government-run healthcare, and this time it will win out and we will have a lot more socialism than either of us want.
I do not have all the answers. But I know that I need to have a better answer for those hard cases than "Life's tough, get a helmet."
Because if that woman's children are not taken care of, you may end up at the point of a gun held by one of them.
Civilized society has a cost. Part of that cost is occasionally paying for other's people's problems, because it will save you money in the long run.
Oh, and nobody's holding a gun to you here. Want health insurance? Either you pay for others' problems, or others pay for yours. If you don't want to pay for others' problems, then drop out and quit asking us to pay for yours.
Okay, first, I voted for GWB and would scare most slashdotters with my right-wing views.
But in my old age, I am coming to soften my Randian views in a few areas. For instance, risk-pooling insurance. What if you have a single mother genetically predisposed to heart disease? She may not be able to afford the premiums for health or life insurance, and when she croaks, the welfare system will be left holding the bag to take care of the kids. TANSTAAFL.
Societal stability comes from things like people being able to hedge against tragedy, illness, and death. At some point we need to concede that the benefit we all get from this stability offsets the penalty that some of us pay for insuring riskier parties.
So what do I think is the right free-market solution? Genetic engineering. If we can find genetic problems, then let's cure them, like we did polio.
-cwk.
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when people stop buying books in the hopes of catching the wave. Technology is nothing. Adoption of it is everything. -cwk.
I do not have all the answers. But I know that I need to have a better answer for those hard cases than "Life's tough, get a helmet."
-cwk.
Civilized society has a cost. Part of that cost is occasionally paying for other's people's problems, because it will save you money in the long run.
Oh, and nobody's holding a gun to you here. Want health insurance? Either you pay for others' problems, or others pay for yours. If you don't want to pay for others' problems, then drop out and quit asking us to pay for yours.
-cwk.
Okay, first, I voted for GWB and would scare most slashdotters with my right-wing views. But in my old age, I am coming to soften my Randian views in a few areas. For instance, risk-pooling insurance. What if you have a single mother genetically predisposed to heart disease? She may not be able to afford the premiums for health or life insurance, and when she croaks, the welfare system will be left holding the bag to take care of the kids. TANSTAAFL. Societal stability comes from things like people being able to hedge against tragedy, illness, and death. At some point we need to concede that the benefit we all get from this stability offsets the penalty that some of us pay for insuring riskier parties. So what do I think is the right free-market solution? Genetic engineering. If we can find genetic problems, then let's cure them, like we did polio. -cwk.