Work out? Eat right? You winners of life's lottery . . .

Given the two choices of adequate health care vs. private sector providers, sure, I agree. I choose adequate heath care for the population. But the world isn't binary.

There are ways to do both. We just didn't go down that path. Tort reform would have been a good start.

 

Until Obama, no one was going down any path, despite some noble efforts in the past. As for tort reform, I think it has already been established that it is a relative drop in the bucket in the overall scheme of things.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/036480.html

http://washingtonindependent.com/55535/tort-reform-unlikely-to-cut-health-care-costs

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/12/tort-reform-could-save-health-care-54-billion-says-cbo/

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I rank tort reform behind, but maybe not by much, anti-trust legislation.

 

I'm sure I can find youtube videos and websites that support the 2012 apocalypse theory, too. Whoop-dee-do.

 

Get rid of the Federal government completely and every state for themselves.

so if Alabama wants to have Segregation and the electorate votes for it, they can have it. That way if black people do not like it they can move o a different state.

And white people who hate blacks can move to Alabama,etc..

Free states would be the right way.

 

I'm sure you can. But not from legitimate sources.

 

Always gotta have the last word, right Gabfly?

 

Agree.

You cannot force people to be in the insurance business. If the climate becomes unfavorable they will quit the market like any other money would. Insurance is about Underwriters who are basically just investors. If the underwriters don't wish to back additionally policies there is nothing the government can do...maybe.

The government might say you must take all new policies if you are to do business. That would force many out of the market completely. So demand for insurance increases but availability decreases and prices rise.

I think its a system for establishing national healthcare in the form of socialized medicine. Socialized medicine is a lead-in for socialization of other services.

 

Speaking of which, where's Optional these days? Did you ban him?

 

I wasn't planning to. Really. But you made a flip comment. Also your last post to me in the cigarette thread was fairly flippant, but I let that one go. I can only give you so much leeway.