01-25-2013, 07:25 PM
Ted King wrote:
I'm not in tune with the "pay more for your health care because you do 'X' in your life." If somebody needs medical care then, sh*t, I say let's give it to them. Everybody pays the same and gets the health care that they need when they need it. I don't feel that way about everything, but I do feel that way about health care.
In a way, I'm with you and would support an NHS-type single payer system. However, in the completely ridiculous insurance-company-based system that has been foisted upon us, we are still going to have to go out and shop for insurance and will be purchasing different products with different benefits for different amounts of money. In that market-based scenario then I don't have a big problem with giving discounts to people who are willing to reduce their need for benefits.