Originally posted on 08/12/2009:

Quote Originally Posted by losturmarbles View Post
socialized? you mean on a federal level?

national defense is a role of government

police and fire protection are roles of government on a state/local level.

schools and libraries aren't roles of government, or shouldnt be. the private sector could do the job twice as good with half the cost.

same goes for health care.
Why? Why should national defense be socialized, but not health care?

Just as it makes more sense for all of us to pitch in and fund national defense, it makes sense for all of us to pitch in and fund health care.

Besides, ALL health insurance is socialist. All of it. It's a group of people getting together to mutually support each other in times of need. The whole idea of insurance is to have the many help the few.

But if you don't choke on your own hypocrisy (supporting government provided health care for the military, for example, because it WORKS, but condemning government provided health care for everyone else because you claim it WON'T work),

or the other hypocrisy of the health care deniers (being part of a socialist health insurance pool--and ALL insurance is essentially socialist--yet condeming national health insurance because it would be ... socialist),

or choke on the OTHER hypocrisy (you'll be in line to accept Medicare one day, which means, you'll gladly be accepting government provided health insurance)

or if you don't choke on your own naivete (believing you have insurance because you haven't been rejected for major expenses yet by profiteering companies, because you haven't had cancer yet)

or choke on your immorality (denying fellow human beings needed care because you're a cheap bastard)

or choke on the sheer stupidity of believing that government provided health insurance would have MORE bureaucracy than the current tangle of red tape we face,

if you don't choke on all that, choke on this:
You are sucking the balls of the health care companies.

In the entire history of the world, there has never been a single Christian against health care for all. Never. By definition.