JoeB131
Diamond Member
The facts are, usually, irrelevant in an ideological debate.To wit, I oppose government controlling health care for the same reasons I oppose government controlling religions.
Okay, that's kind of retarded.
Just as telling me about the awesome benefits of state mandated religion wouldn't matter - even if you had rock solid proof. I'd still oppose it.
Okay, so if the State Religion could prove to you that their version of God would get you into heaven and the religion you want to practice would send you straight to Heck, you'd be against the government religion because "eek, government".
I work on actual evidence. When I was in a government system - the military - I got whatever care I needed when I needed it. It cost me nothing out of pocket. Good system.
When I was in a private insurance plan, those guys pretty much screwed me at every opportunity.
However, I don't get the claim that government is good and insurance is bad. Government and insurance are so intertwined you can't tell where one starts and the other ends.
Only because insurance has managed to manipulate the system. The reason why insurance is bad because their first duty is to make money. That means collecting as much as they can in premiums and paying out as little as possible in benefits.
In fact, an employer provided insurance plan priorities are 1) Pleasing their stockholders by making a profit 2) Pleasing their execs by paying out those juicy big salaries, 3) pleasing the employers by keeping rates low and then, maybe, maybe 4) Pleasing the poor schlubs who use the insurance by getting them the care they thought they were buying into.