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2. minimum car insurance is not insuring your own car, it's insuring the cars of everyone else against damage you might do to it.
likewise minimum car insurance is insuring not your pocket, but the one of everyone else against damage you might do to it. as long as 'life' has enough value in our society that people are not asked to first pay then treated it seems pretty much the same to me.

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3. Normality isn't necessarily a desirable thing. IMHO, normality is borderline despicable.
well again depends, most people are not serial killers either.

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4. unhesitatingly yes.
for you i know, and of course your judgment could be affected by what you do for a living, or the later can be a reflection of the former.
in any case i don't think this is a desirable trait for most members of the society.

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The big problem we have now - and I don't know that anyone is really focusing on it - is the increasing cost of care.
yes, indeed and at some point it will be unavoidable. from the little i've read on the current proposed legislation is that if enacted it is supposed to make cost control down the road easier.