The Lack Of Healthcare Coverage

Then we disagree in principle. I see things like education, roads, police and defense as things that benefit most, if not all of a population, and thus worthy of everybody paying into it. If 96% of a community is recieving nothing for their tax dollars, that does not jive with the idea of limited taxation.

Tax less, encourage community cohesion, and I guarantee charity will provide what you want the government to provide, and they'll do it faster, cheaper, and better.

*Note, all powers listed I advocate at the state level only, save defense, which can be shared.

It seems we are in total agreement freeman . And you have earned my respect young man. If my beautiful daughter was not already married I would ask you if you were interested and that is no small compliment. I was very particular about who she married as were both of her brothers.

Except because of your youth you have not yet learned that one cannot depend on the charity of the human race .

Take for instance the fact that for 200 to 300 hundred years wealthy families took to cutting all the buttons off clothes they would give to the poor . These were used hand me downs now why cut off the buttons?

Because there was a button shortage? ..... Wrong.

They did it so that the children of those who received these hand me down clothes could be set apart in school as wearing hand me downs. They did it for malicious reasons.

I am sure you will see that in years to come , that one cannot depend upon the charity of humans as a group. If you do you will be sadly disappointed.

I did a simple math calculation based on 300,000 million population a few years ago, and it worked out that if we use the same risk management ratios as the insurance companies who have made billions after billions on health care insurance do . When it all worked out in the wash a single person would pay a premium of about $300 per year. A family of four about $800 per year. ........ Cheaper and better for all of us because we cut out the insurance companies and allow negotiations with the god like pharmaceutical companies.

Risk versus /use Its been profitable for insurance companies to the tune of billions a year for almost a century.

Explain to me why when peoples lives are at stake we should not cut out the middle man( the insurance companies) and as states use the same system to cover everybody at a much reduced cost ?

Okay freeman and Brian ,

You are both talking from the prospective of where you are at this point in your lives. Your prospective and your medical costs will change with age , you can be sure of that.

And we tie the yearly payment into tags for peoples cars. They don't make their medical payment they do not get tags for their cars.

Sure some poor would have to be subsidized, say at the poverty levels not above the poverty levels we subsidize the payment on a graduating scale.

Because just like once a year you know you have to buy tags for the car, everybody would know they had that insurance payment coming or no tags and there is no excuse to not save that small monthly amount to get health insurance.

So they would be penalized with no tags and no insurance till they did pay. Sure some of the dregs of society would show up in courts having not paid and got caught with expired tags. let the legal system take its coarse and they will either end up in jail or get with the program.