Quote Originally Posted by bromion View Post
Private insurance companies are simply an inefficiency here... they have to make profit, and they do. Those profits come directly out of the money that should be going to someone's health care. As they provide no other service than to disburse money, why not do it ourselves, for free?
While we are off topic, this statement is what has me the most worried, and the fact that its twisted logic is resonating so soundly throughout the country. It comes down to the redistribution of wealth (communism).

By this logic, i should be able to walk into a grocery store and only pay a reasonable co-pay, because if health care is a right, then the provision of food should most certainly be a right (without health care i get sick, possibly die, without food I certainly die). Grocery stores are forced to turn a profit, and that profit should be going to provide someone else's food.

I should be able to walk into a clothing store and only pay a reasonable co-pay because without clothes i will catch a cold and get sick, and end up going to the nationalized healthcare. So, in an effort to provide better health care, we should nationalize the clothing industry. The clothing industry has to turn a profit, and that profit could be redistributed to provide clothing to another person.

I should be able to only pay a small co-pay for my electricity and natural gas bill, because without electricity and natural gas my house would not be heated, and I could not cook my food. Those darn utility companies have to turn a profit, and that profit could be used to provide electricity and natural gas to other people, so we need to nationalize those industries.

AND ON, AND ON, AND ON.

Pretty soon we will be calling each other Comrade.

This was off topic, and I apologize to myself for taking my thread off topic.

Matt