(October 29, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Skeletor Wrote: Personally, I think it was a shitty compromise, made necessary by the fucking grinches on the right.
The subsidy for low income persons is good, but the deductibles are still liable to bankrupt the poor.
I'd rather see a single-payer system, with copays and other expenses subsidized for the poor.
EHRMAHGEHRD SOSHIULIZM!
I'm a right-of center-libertarian on most issues.
On matters of health, a pragmatic view would cut expenses by insuring the poor for preventative care, rather than forcing them to use emergency-room care.
And a moralistic view, which I do hold, is that we should aid fellow humans in their time of suffering.
Yes, I know that politics and morals make for very strange bedfellows. But I can dream, right?
