Comments on: The Moral Bankruptcy of “Market-Based” Health Insurance http://www.ustvmedia.org/taxes-the-commons-and-the-social-contract/2007/01/24/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-market-based-health-insurance/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:30:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: cynndara http://www.ustvmedia.org/taxes-the-commons-and-the-social-contract/2007/01/24/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-market-based-health-insurance/#comment-11230 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:59:45 +0000 http://www.ustvmedia.org/taxes-the-commons-and-the-social-contract/2007/01/24/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-market-based-health-insurance/#comment-11230 It appears that Colbert did an excellent explanation of the problems with Bush's new plan for deducting health insurance from the taxes that the poor don't pay; it was shown on Stephanopoulis this morning. That should at least support jettisoning Bush's non-plan on the problem. The only real solution is national single-payer health care. But there are going to be bugs -- lots of them -- and rich, self-indulgent, and irresponsible people aren't going to like some of the rationing that occurs, while responsible and self-disciplined people still aren't going to like the fact that they are footing the bills for many irresponsible and self-destructive types. There will have to be limits to limitless craving for perfection, and to endless maintainance of brain-dead vegetables on life-support. In other words -- nobody's going to like it. It appears that Colbert did an excellent explanation of the problems with Bush’s new plan for deducting health insurance from the taxes that the poor don’t pay; it was shown on Stephanopoulis this morning. That should at least support jettisoning Bush’s non-plan on the problem.

The only real solution is national single-payer health care. But there are going to be bugs — lots of them — and rich, self-indulgent, and irresponsible people aren’t going to like some of the rationing that occurs, while responsible and self-disciplined people still aren’t going to like the fact that they are footing the bills for many irresponsible and self-destructive types. There will have to be limits to limitless craving for perfection, and to endless maintainance of brain-dead vegetables on life-support. In other words — nobody’s going to like it.

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