re: Question to libs about prexisting conditions and high risk

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There's a reason countries with single-payer have to tax the hell out of citizens and then they still need to be buy supplemental coverage on private markets.

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The taxes those citizens of other countries pay, even if you lump in the cost of any supplemental insurance they choose to buy, are far less than what Americans pay in health insurance.

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You should be on your own

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It's really a question of whether you want a civilized society or an every-man-for-himself anarchy like prehistoric humans had and wild animals still have. One price of civilization is pooling resources for the common good.

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Unleash the private market and allow it to fully underwrite risks and create innovative solutions to problems.

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Letting people die because they don't have enough money to pay for necessary care is not innovative in the least. In fact, it's the oldest solution on the planet. At some point, we decided we could do better, so we did. Now, some want to go back.

I don't know what in the hell it is that makes people so romanticize prehistoric times, from the paleo diet to extreme libertarian laissez-faire economics, it's all the same damned thing, a return to primitive times before advanced civilization. What idiot thinks those days were better?