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Originally posted by sixate
....I'll never take anyone's handouts......On a side note... Why the hell would our government want to make trips to the moon when we could spend that money on some type of health care system? Health care costs are outrageous. Fuck the moon.
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Yeah - somebody should GIVE me healthcare. I want it free. While I agree with everything else you said (and usually what you say in general) you seem to be contradicting yourself here.
Follow you own advice: Work and save for your healthcare and you won't need it to be free. How about a catastrofic care insurance policy that covers big shit (like cancer or something) that is darn cheap and a tax free medical savings account that you can only use for medical expenses. It comes right out of your pay similar to what you are playing for health care today out of your pay.
I bet you get better care for it since it is your money directly paying for what is important to you. Otherwise you have to pay for your's and everyone else's medical care ultimatly in your taxes after your money filters through the "system" and you get .25 cents on the $100 after it comes out the other side. Think about this - are you more or less "sick" than the average person? If the answer is less then you WILL pay more for your same healthcare even if we don't take into account the efficencies of government.
As for the moon - dream big. Who knows what we find. The way it was pitched, NASA budget has been refocused on the moon so instead of massive increases in the NASA buget for the moon, more money is spent on the moon and way less is spent on things like the international space station. The cost of national healthcare would be massivly more than something like the moon and really cannot be compared.