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Originally Posted by Willravel
That's great except you're forgetting a few things. I pay about $70 for copay now, and I don't know of anyone paying less than $20. Also, even though I have the Rolls Royce of medical coverage, there's still a chance that I won't be covered for some obscure or unforeseeable medical event. And if you ever develop a serious medical condition and lose your job, good luck getting coverage again for anything less than an exorbitant price. If you can even get coverage. You could end up being one of the nearly 50 million Americans with no coverage whatsoever, and your ideology will be put to the test.
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My copay with my current insurance is $8 for a doctor visit and either $3 or $5 for prescriptions. With my old insurance, my doctor visits cost $25 and prescriptions were $10.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Care to elaborate on this?
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I thought it was pretty straight forward. My current health coverage costs less than what you assume I'd be paying with socialized health care. So even if money was my sole concern, socialized health care wouldn't be benefiting me.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Ah, so you demand government step in and protect you from an accident involving fire, but if it's any other kind of accident, the government better stay the heck out of it. How is a kitchen fire any different than falling down stairs? How is a bad light fixture burning down your garage any different than an airbag misfire giving you whiplash? If it's the government's job to protect the individual rights of citizens, where is the line between fire protection and medical protection?
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I don't demand that they protect me from self-caused accidents. I demand that they protect me from things like arson.
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Originally Posted by Rekna
Oh yeah that's exactly what I said!
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It seemed to be.
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Of course much of the right actually think they should do this.
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Yes, they do. That's why I disagree with many on the right when it comes to things like same-sex marriage
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Since you are against it I trust you don't think the government should consider rape, incest, and murder a crime. After all that is the government forcing values on others....
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Values aren't necessarily the same thing as religious values (such as the one you used to explain your support for socialized health care). We don't need a Pope or a Koran to come up with arguments as to why things like rape and murder are wrong.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
I think that we should replace the constitution with Peter Cetera lyrics.
Think about it.
Pow.
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I'd do it all for the glory of love, you know.