I am. This is the problem with everything. I shouldn't have to help someone else. Yes, my religion calls for helping thy neighbor, but just sending money out to help some that aren't willing to work hard enough to do it for themselves is a freaking issue. If I am going to pay for someone else health care, smoking needs to be banned, as well as drinking alcohol or anything else someone can choose to do that is unhealthy. OR, stop all risky activities that can result in injury to include mountain climbing, racing, skydiving, even football, etc. I shouldn't have to pay for someone who is doing something by choice that would require health care.GannonFan wrote:
And that's the crux of the matter. I don't think people are seriously against better taking care of 32M people who don't have health insurance or cutting out the more agregious health care insurance practices. But the main problem is, now that we spend all this money doing this, and assuming this is all that we're going to spend doing this (which is unlikely as these things are typically much more expensive than initially proposed) how do we afford to fix everything else that is begging for money in America. We've basically shot our load with this reform and now we have nothing for anything else. What happens when states go broke in the next few years, what happens when the economy trickles along for several years without significant job growth, what happens when public pensions come due and are woefully underfunded? A country has never taxed itself into prosperity, but it looks like we may try doing that.
This is why I don't want this crap. I want to eat my fried foods, drink all the Fing beer I want, and play all the sports I want, even though all three are going to result in a bad heart or potential for spained/broken ankles, knees, etc. basically resulting in a need for health. If I was to be one that puts that tax on my "neighbors" then I chose to be by actions that could prevented.
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