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About MsRR's post on healthcare...
The point of insurance is that everyone pays in so that the cost of medical care is spread around. It's like a lottery. If it's a choice whether to pay in, then only people who pay in should receive healthcare. Or else pay for their own--but doing so is impossibly expensive for many people. We already have laws so doctors have to treat people, and if we have universal healthcare everyone has to pay for it.
One problem with medical care is that capitalism won't foster equality of care since some operations have net losses economically. Healthcare laws are (sometimes) intended to combat a free market in order to provide care where it's not fiscally advantageous. The cost of that care has to be paid, and having a single source is supposed to spread the cost around fairly.
I'm not saying Obamacare is the best way, or that it works, or even that universal, equal healthcare is right, but I just thought I'd mention that
