Posted on 05/31/2011 5:38:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
I see. By your rationale, then, if the government witholds money for prison inmates to get college degrees, then it’s trying to control your education, right? Only if you’re a criminal, I guess. You still haven’t answered my question: do you support taxpayer-funded government healthcare programs with no strings attached? It would seem that you do, in addition to believing that someone else is responsible for taking care of any expenses that arise as a result of your lifestyle choices.
Freedom allows us to be idiots, as long as it isn’t against the law. Personal responsibility is the dividing line between stupidity, and the abyss. If you choose to be an idiot I’m not going to try to stop you; just don’t tell me I have the responsibility of taking care of your dumb ass after you’ve broken it... which is exactly the argument you are making, all attempts at snappy comebacks aside.
And as an aside, I represent 23 different insurers, and NOT ONE OF THEM supported Obamacare. If you quit your whining about how life is just so unfair when it comes to wolves and health coverage, you would see that we’re all in the same boat when it comes to getting screwed by this abortion of a bill. Just one of the national health insurers I work with has laid off roughly 50% of their field force, and roughly 30% of their administrative staff, as a direct result it. Personally, my commissions on health sales are down roughly 40% across the board, I no longer recieve bonuses, and insurance stocks are in the crapper... so those of us with company retirement plans are literally starting from scratch, in addition to working harder to make less money than before. Is this assuaging your ego with respect to big, bad corporate America?
I do not believe in the government regulating our life choices. What I have said, repeatedly, is that if you make choices that result in others being forced to pay more to take care of you, there should be limits.
For example, if you smoke and are on state medical aid, you should have that aid curtailed or you should be charged more, because your smoking will cause you to use more of that aid.... which is what private health insurance companies already do. Private companies already mitigate risk through cost; do we really believe that public benefits should not have the same responsibilities attached?
I was recently talking to a nurse in a maternity ward; she had just discharged, under guard, a drug addict who was having her fifth out-of-wedlock child. The guard was due to the fact that she had been trying to score while in the damnned hospital. The first four had been taken away from her due to her continuing convictions. Her health coverage? MaineCare, of course; the taxpayer-funded plan with no deductibles, no copays, no limits, and apparently, no forethought as to how frigging lucky you are to have that plan, free of charge on the backs of others who are quite literally forced to pay for your years of irresponsibility.
Still feel like there should be no limits?
In other news, some bogus research says if you have fat friends, then you will also be obese.
There is an easy fix. Quit regarding them as food and regard them as "sports equipment".
They make lovely bats, sliced they make disks for throwing or shooting and hollowed out the biggest ones make fine canoes.
Wasn't that the subject of Anthony Wiener's Twitter post?
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