Adam we live in a society where we can't all be self sufficient within our own 40 Acres plot. He have to live together and that takes a government to mediate the differing opinions in the world, on how to manage our communal resources.
Excerpt from my Blog Post the other day:
We don't want single payer. We want expanded Medicaid.
Let the insurance companies keep selling insurance to healthy people. It will keep the lines shorter at the public health clinic. We can't stop free enterprise..... We can.... but doing so hurts everyone in the long run like in Venezuela; And if a company wants to refuse service to anyone that's their decision to make, not ours; ours is to simply band together and fund our own public system using payroll taxes and doc stamps money and tort reform limiting liability for public employee doctors and nurses.
We must lobby congress to replace Obamacare with expanded Medicare without means testing and without outlawing private coverage or care.
We must have a public and private care as dueling systems.
Orrrr we could free the market, pay $20 a month, and you could go volunteer at a charity or mutual aid society. Don't steal my money because you don't want to help people yourself.
This works this way in Panama' . The public hospital system works from payroll taxes and the middle class top up with private insurance which allows access to private hospitals who don't treat people without private insurance or cash. My total health insurance bill for the family is $300 per month including the money they extort for the public system but if I contract an incurable debilitating disease Ill probably lose the insurance have to pay cash for service or use the public system.
The US has 20 million or so uninsurable people skewing the actuarial tables that we are subsidizing an insurance company to manage their care. (Frankly it's not insurance if you plan to use it). BUT what will you tell these medically addicted masses? Just go die because you don't qualify for Medicaid yet? What's the answer?
There are many ways to structure a healthcare system. Obamacare obliterated our healthcare system... it's practically slavery to insurance companies at this point. The free market, however, will make things cheap as hell, so it wouldn't cost nearly as much to pay for treatment. Plus, if we get patent law and medical schooling fixed we can reduce prices even further. Why wouldn't you just donate or join a mutual aid society? Again, it seems as if you are avoiding your own moral place in this. Why don't you yourself donate? Would that not accomplish the same thing as asking the government to steal from me?
You're focused on the Extortion whereas requiring financial responsibility for medical treatment is simply that. I'm simply proposing to fund it through a payroll tax, and keeping public care cheap through tort reform. But you're avoiding my question. "What do we do with the 25 million uninsurable people skewing the actuarial tables? ". No one will insure them, they don't qualify for Medicaid unless they become wards of the state anyway. Is that your idea of how it should work?