Said Michael

• 2009-08-22

  

  patricc:

  ‘tis all.

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  benhuber:

  Castle Vidcons: Comic #87 - Pretender to the Throne

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• 2009-08-21

  1. Daniel: Like.. in general
  2. Michael: ah!
  3. Michael: I see what you mean
  4. Michael: Maybe I'm just being less selective then
  5. Daniel: That's not it
  6. Daniel: or less attached to individuals
  7. Daniel: That's it
  8. Daniel: hahaha
  9. Michael: ha

• 2009-08-20

  

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  I’m memorizing this.

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  On the "Health Care plan"

  hannahisdeceased:

  I think the healthcare plan is a good thing. Im not going to debate my opinion. I just thought I’d state it. It’s going to help a lot of people who can’t afford healthcare, and lower the cost of it. Not all of these people who can’t afford it are “lost causes”, they are simply people who don’t make enough to afford decent, or any medical coverage. and I think a lot of people are being incredibly selfish about it.
  kthnxbye.

  A few problems I have with this post (some original content here, but much of what I want to say has already been said better, so follow the links too):

  1. “It’s going to help a lot of people who can’t afford healthcare, and lower the cost of it.”
     Well, not exactly.
  2. “Not all of these people who can’t afford it are “lost causes”, they are simply people who don’t make enough to afford decent, or any medical coverage.”
     Well of course they’re not “lost causes”, and it’s not like health care shouldn’t be made more accessible, but how in the world is the government going to know what every single person who doesn’t have insurance needs? How can it possibly accumulate all of that information? And was it really a “free market” that drove up costs in the first place?
  3. “and I think a lot of people are being incredibly selfish about it.”
     We all pursue things out of self-interest, that’s how humans are, but that being said, I am not “selfish”. I am not posting this because I’m some greedy douchebag who’s looking to dick over someone who’s poorer than me. I’m looking for health care reform too, but there’s no better reform than letting people vote with their money, and the public option doesn’t let you do that. Our current system doesn’t let you do that: insurance companies have one of the least competitive markets out there.
     
     Instead, you are supporting an insurance company that may not be good, and that you may not even use, and not even voluntarily. it isn’t even “charity”, it’s just…taken from you. Improving it—assuming you would be able to—has to go through contacting your representative (who may or may not ignore you), other representatives (if they agree), and then the President, and even then the bureaucratic mess that’s running it may never achieve what you wanted. Americans are terrible central planners, and I don’t see that changing.
     
     And another thing about “selfishness”: The thing people forget about profit—that disgusting thing people might make when they’re in a business—is that it isn’t a win-lose scenario. When an exchange of goods or services is made, both parties win. Unless you’re backwards, when you buy something, you gain something and so do they. Governments mangle that process—they implement taxes, subsidies, restrictions, regulations, tons of ways to prevent you from operating as freely as you would with voluntary exchange. They take your earnings by force from you under the claim that it’s for the “common good” and might decide to give some if it back. By not allocating resources to what people would want them to go to, they make the economy less efficient and all of us a little poorer.

  Okay, I’m done.

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