g5000
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I disagree a little bit. I think Obamacare is overbearing and overbroad, but since it is dem only law, that's to be expected. But, the concept of govt supporting workers getting HC doesn't seem conceptually different to a minimum wage, or a law requiring insurance compnaies cover mental as well as physical illnesses, or taking an even broader analogy, I don't see how universal care is conceptually different from clean air or water, because we all share an economic cost, but the economic benefit outweighs the cost without question.
Even Coburn supported using public dollars to set up pools for high risk folks and expanding medicaid.
I, too, support a pool for high risk people. Absolutely.
But I also believe we would have a lot more public resources available to help the truly and honestly needy if we got government out of where it does not belong.
Is an able bodied man who has fathered 10 kids and takes responsibility for none of them "truly and honestly needy" ?
Nope. As the President of a faith-based non-profit, I can speak with some authority in making that determination.
I believe that we should help those who are physically or mentally unable to take care of themselves, but everyone else should be responsible for their own welfare.
Agreed, to a point.