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originally posted by: Zimnydran
It is madness..... We are all mad as a hatter. Year after year, day after, we sit in our homes, Left complaining about the Right, The Right complaining about the left. Each accusing the other of being the cause of their misery.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
So it's OK for me to have to pay more for medical expenses because other people are morons? What about my rights and my own individual responsibility?
It's OK that someone flies out their car's windshield and kills my family because they're negligent? Why should I be punished because I'm responsible and they aren't?
And you are a-OK somehow justifying that to me how, exactly?
I love personal responsibility. It only matters and comes up when it benefits someone's cause. I hear "why should I have to pay taxes to fund programs that help lazy people who don't work! I'm personally responsible and have a job! Why am I being punished!"
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: DBCowboy
while i agree with you, and you know i do, don't forget that seatbelt laws and helmet laws (as common sense as they are) are an infringement as well.
i don't think we can legislate common sense.
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
. I don't see why we can't change the law to just let people sign a waiver that if it's only them who get hurt, the insurance company is free and clear.
Some things can be one way, but others can't.
The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found a “minimum and unavoidable” demand for hospital care among the uninsured at an annual cost to hospitals of $900 a patient.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
. I don't see why we can't change the law to just let people sign a waiver that if it's only them who get hurt, the insurance company is free and clear.
Some things can be one way, but others can't.
screw that.
insurance companies gamble with your health, life, and safety. Like a nanny would. And to insure that the cards are stacked in their favor while gambling with my health, life, and safety, the nanny spends a buttload of money to pass laws that stack that deck for them.
which, incidentally, is part of the whole issue with ACA. If "greater good" weighed into it at all, an industry wouldn't be posting record profits from it. Although that is off topic