re: #427 LudwigVanQuixote

That is such a callous cartoon.

Do you really think that no-one in America is lacking for proper medical care?

Do you really think that in the inner cities they have all the insurance they could need from govt programs already?

Do you really think that 20 year olds just choose to not have insurance because they are stupid?

Do you really think that with growing unemployment those people who are “between” jobs are something that will just fix itself quickly enough that none of them will get sick?

I actually am for responsible spending in government, but the level of willfully blind callousness that gets displayed by such things gets me.

Boo. Hoo. Hoo.

Honestly…

…as far as health insurance reform and other issues relating to the government taking the hard-earned money of “people who can afford it” to spend on what the government deems fit…

…I believe callousness is warranted.

In decisions that could bankrupt my 7-year old nephew’s generation and beyond, I assert that we need less emotion and more “callousness”.

I have a few questions of my own:

Do you honestly believe that it is my (or any other individual taxpayer’s) responsibility to pay for someone else’s health costs?

Do you think that the government has the right to take my (or any other individual taxpayer’s) hard-earned money to pay for someone else’s health care?

Do you know what’s best for each individual in that group of uninsured and underinsured people—let alone each person in a nation of 300+ million individuals?

Furthermore, each business functions to earn a profit for the owners of that business. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a lemonade stand or an insurance company.

Most of this can be forgiven.

The real concern is that an employee of the government can decide what kind of health care is in a patient’s best interest based on a list of criteria; as of now, it’s split among the patient, the doctor, and the insurance company. As inelegant, imperfect, and painful as this system may be; it does work.

As for “doing the right thing”? I refer you to Adam Smith, sir.

Callous? Perhaps.

One more question: Does callousness in an assertion make the assertion false?