Let's un-socialize medicine

[raoul duke]

Originally Posted by Eat My Gun

So you've weighed the costs and benefits of purchasing insurance and decided that there wasn't any insurance worth buying? That's absolutely you're right.

Yes, I have weighed the costs and benefits. I also work in the insurance business and know how to read a policy and can easily catch the legal buzz-words that delineate how and why I may be dropped from the coverage I would purchase. I'm not a health care expert, but I'm fluent in legalese. My money, as the system currently works, would be better spent if I just lit in on fire.

Originally Posted by Eat My Gun

I assume there are probably a lot of others who have opted not to buy health insurance for similar rational reasons.

Perhaps, though I'm not convinced. But I'd proffer that most people don't buy it because it is unaffordable.

Originally Posted by Eat My Gun

So now that we are on the verge of Obama care, should the rest of us now be forced to buy it for them because they are willfully uninsured? Why do they get the option of not purchasing health insurance for themselves because they don't feel it's worth it, but the rest of us aren't afforded the same option?

I think you raise excellent points which highlight some of the serious flaws in the bill that was passed tonight. Why not single-payer? Especially because the only American health care system that is not mocked by the rest of the developed world for being utterly stupid and non-sensible happens to be the VA, which is a large and relatively cost efficient single-payer socialist nightmare. The second best health care program in the country is the other socialist single-payer nightmare known as Medicare/Medicaid.

If our current system works so well, why hasn't any other western culture adopted it?

Originally Posted by Eat My Gun

To be honest, buying someone else's health insurance isn't really worth it to me, can I opt out?

Only if you promise to die quietly and cheaply.