RE: Obama care
July 28, 2012 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2012 at 2:04 pm by Darth.)
DP:
I don't disagree, but I'd go further.
Statist...
policies...
don't...
work!
and what's more they are immoral.
One note on deregulation though, let me ask this. There are different types of regulation, types that seek to control what company/industry X can and can't do, types that benefit company/industry X (e.g., like letting developers steal other's property, or the giving of subsidies/government backing) and then there are types that control what company/industry Y can do, which benefits company/industry X because now there is less/no competition. I ask you, if you think that it was deregulation to blame for the financial crisis, what type of deregulation was it? It certainly wasn't the scrapping of government subsidies and handouts. You moved closer to corportatism, the privatisation of profits and the socialisation of losses, it wasn't a free market.
plum: You're happy to pay for homeopathy hospitals (which is what I linked)? Alright then. Though I doubt I'll ever need that =P
Yes, I'll most likely need healthcare at some point (it's not 100%, If someone cuts me into pieces no amount of queen's horses and men will be able to put me back together again). That's not the point. It's socialised healthcare for adults (I'm totally ok with it for kids and for people who enter adulthood unable to earn a living due to illness*) that I wouldn't need.
*So long as it's sensible and necessary, see my previous links =P.
I don't disagree, but I'd go further.
Statist...
policies...
don't...
work!
and what's more they are immoral.
One note on deregulation though, let me ask this. There are different types of regulation, types that seek to control what company/industry X can and can't do, types that benefit company/industry X (e.g., like letting developers steal other's property, or the giving of subsidies/government backing) and then there are types that control what company/industry Y can do, which benefits company/industry X because now there is less/no competition. I ask you, if you think that it was deregulation to blame for the financial crisis, what type of deregulation was it? It certainly wasn't the scrapping of government subsidies and handouts. You moved closer to corportatism, the privatisation of profits and the socialisation of losses, it wasn't a free market.
plum: You're happy to pay for homeopathy hospitals (which is what I linked)? Alright then. Though I doubt I'll ever need that =P
Yes, I'll most likely need healthcare at some point (it's not 100%, If someone cuts me into pieces no amount of queen's horses and men will be able to put me back together again). That's not the point. It's socialised healthcare for adults (I'm totally ok with it for kids and for people who enter adulthood unable to earn a living due to illness*) that I wouldn't need.
*So long as it's sensible and necessary, see my previous links =P.
