Here’s the latest reader rant, with my comments below: Dave writes: I went for years as a healthy individual until a staph infection last April. Almost died. I am 75. You never know when it is your turn to be sick . So I am on the state insurance called Medicare.
Source: Reader Rant! “We” Need and “I Believe”…
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I agree that you never know when it is your turn to be sick. But that is not the issue. The issue – the moral issue – is whether your sickness and associated expenses impose an obligation upon me enforceable at gunpoint. And mine on you. My position is that they do not. That your life is yours and mine is mine and we each ought to be free to live our lives as we think best; to plan for life’s exigencies and regardless of them, accept that our problems, whether the result of irresponsibility or not, don’t give us the moral right to pick up guns and point them at other people.
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As a little L libertarian, I agree that essentially EVERYONE is responsible for their own care. However, under the guise of “insurance”, the Gooferment has made many promises, suggestions, “spins”, and innuendos about “coverage”. So it’s no wonder that one of the “clovers” (Peter’s name for “We, The Sheeple”) is confused. Given the “education” that passes for what happens in Gooferment Skrules, it’s no wonder that the disaster is ongoing.
I empathize with those of us in the same boat. The Gooferment has stolen our savings by “taxation” and “inflation” in exchange for (non-existent) “protection” and (bankrupt and misrepresented) “insurance”.
What’s a crime victim to do?
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