Musicmystery
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Are we willing to have money taken out of our paychecks to provide health care to some indigent family who can't afford it?
The question is more properly: "Are we willing to have more money taken out of our paychecks by force by a tyrannical government who will poorly use half or more of it, and use most of the remainder to pay for medical care for someone who decided he needed two new cars and a bigger house more than he needed health insurance?" The indigent, you see, already have free health care...
That having been said, the first law ever made in this country by a European was, in effect: "Work or starve". I like both the law and the spirit of it.
People make many bad decisions; some of them are in fact fatal. I'm not sure that correcting all of those bad decisions is a proper function of gummint.
Interesting case study----all the states right now are struggling with financial woes, and in particular, Medicaid/Medicare costs.
Now, every state has, and has always had, the right to opt out of Medicaid/Medicare. LBJ knew it would never pass otherwise.
Yet not a single state does. Why? They know the problem would be far worse without those programs.
So the answer to Animus' question is "Yes." And the answer to "On balance, will this programs be preferable, workable, successful" is also "Yes."
And has been, for over 40 years.
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