Quote Originally Posted by Zimzum
Why should healthy people have to pay for people who choose to smoke and eat unhealthy foods? Without government regulations a free market would make for better competition between insurance providers. Public welfare is a joke and just allows government more control on your personal life. If Ron is elected and eliminates the IRS that would mean an extra $150~ a week in my paycheck, and thats just what I pay to federal, not state, more then enough to cover the cost of health care and personal investments in retirement.

The people who brought us our broken social security system and Medicare now want to bring us health care.
Why omit to say "why should I pay for anyone faulty genetics?" Not all conditions are attributed by smoking and eating unhealthy food. Living a healthy lifestyle does not guarantee you'll be disease-free. The system you propose would only benefit those that have perfect genetics, or lucky enough to have secure employment so one can maintain there benefits.

Why give power to insurance companies to deny benefits to anyone that had preexisting conditions? So they can profit more, so they don't have to pay for that person's treatment? You run into ethical dilemmas. Even with insurance, families get bankrupt because one person is sick, and insurance companies refuse to pay for their treatment.

We have the military, roads, schools socialized. It'll work for health care as well. I grew up in Europe with the belief the government is responsible for the overall welfare of it's citizens. Otherwise, what is the purpose of government? Get rid of the special interest crap, and they'll be plenty of money available for health care. Countries far smaller and poorer are able to pull off socialized health care.