re: #523 Walter L. Newton

You’ve gone rather astray.

The point that I’m making is that you are someone who, nobly, wants to never be supported at the public expense. I’m pointing out that, if you don’t have health insurance and have a severe injury and are unable to inform the doctors that you don’t wish to recieve care that you can’t pay for, you will wind up in a position of deep debt that you most likely would not be able to ever escape from. This would mean that the debt was defaulted on, and that the taxpayers and others who paid for health insurance picked up your bill.

I am in no way attempting to impose my own philosophy on you; I am pointing out that, to be consistent with your philosophy, you should have some form of health insurance otherwise you run the risk of having the public pay for your care in the case of an accident or other critical illness.

Do you understand?