Politics and Money

[hellcatjr]

I disagree, it is a slippery slope. Whenever you begin to subsidize any market, the government begins to over-regulate which then prices out the market in regards to services.

Incidentally, your comments..

1) the truly impoverised who LEGITIMATELY cannot afford health insurance

This is simply a symptom of a larger problem imo. Economic inequity has created this vacuum of 'truly impoverised'.

2) insurance for catastropic medical needs....IMO....there is no reason a family should have to sell their home or go bankrupt because a family member experienced an extraordinary medical misfortune

But, the tax-payer should not be forced to cover the medical needs of another. I understand that some may find this controversial, but subsidizing ones losses onto another is not a solution. Given enough time, this'll be gamed, hi-jacked and used to further impoverish the masses.

Medicine in general has become a cash-cow. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic oath? Most of the 'diseases' are by-products of a modernized world and we simply label them as diseases. More medicine, more insurance, more premiums, more profits.

It has become pretty sickening. More so then corporate crime and international affairs. To me, chemotherapy is euthanasia, plain and simple. In some cases, medical treatment will cost individuals hundreds of thousands of dollars which coincidentally finds itself falling to the heirs of next in line succession of families.

More debt slavery only this time in the form of medical bills.