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Originally Posted by rahl
I'm not going to argue with you. He doesn't want to pay for people other than himself to have coverage period. Thats the way alot of people feel who oppose this bill. I understand what your saying about a pool of money, but it has absolutely nothing to do with his point.
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His point was that he didnt want to pay for the "health welfare" of others. In a very narrow sense, he already is when he signs up for insurance.
In a broader sense, we all already pay for a significant number of medical discoveries, regulation, and so on.
Not only that, we already pay for the uninsured. Indirectly, as when someone without insurance doesn't get treatment for an infectious disease and spreads it around. And quite directly, when hospitals have to stabilize even those without insurance. And when it comes to that, we end up spending a lot more than if the problem was treated early in the first place. Now, Im sure some will say that the solution would be to simply let those uninsured die without care (even the children, who make up a lot of the uninsured), but I would love to see anyone defend that option publicly.