10-15-2009, 01:58 PM
Quote: You equate health care reform with a government monopoly on providing health care, and borrowing 1 trillion dollars to pay for it (from Mr. Tomorrow).
Of course, borrowing money, especially when it is a lot, is never good. But to use this as an argument for health care reforms seems very ridculous to me.
You can use the 'have pity on coming generations' argument for a lot of things, but not against health care. These are really the words from somebody who has good healthcare opportunities and who can't imagine himself in the shoes of somebody who hasn't.
There is enough money to go round in the US, if you don't want healthcare for everybody because you are afraid of asking a few % more taxes to people with lots of money that is fine, but don't start crying about future generations.
The trillion dollars of health care will by the way mainly be spend on workforce inside your own country, and on medicine (of which you also produce enough), so money that feeds directly back into your economy.
But I guess the right of some people to be filthy rich is more important.