Comeon Guys, they already shut this thing down once.
Should we just ignore and pretend Communism, wickedness and evil isn't what it is for the sake of keeping a thread from getting shut down?
Everything JH has opined on this thread is rooted in Leftist ideology and the talking points he spews are right out of the Democrat/Marxist playbook. Witness:
I agree with Cuban - insurance for chronic illnesses and serious injury should be available to all. And financed by general tax revenues, then it's paid for by all, and does away with the current distortions that equate affordable health insurance with the good fortune of working for a large employer...
Such a change helps the poor, and helps employers be more competitive with their overseas counterparts whose employees get health insurance through general taxation, not their employer's bottom line.
If you get sick, you can die. Is that the "natural liberty" you're so keen to preserve?
Average Americans can no longer tolerate our system where SHEER LUCK determines whether a catastrophic illness brings bankruptcy and ruin.
Security against financial ruin due to ill health should likewise be provided for by means of broad-based taxes.
I like what I think Mark Cuban is advocating - provide by means of broad-based taxes basic protections for all citizens against financial ruin with respect to medical catastrophe - serious injury and chronic illness. Perhaps just simple taxpayer-funded "stop loss" insurance that would pick up when a citizen's total medical expenses exceed a threshold amount.
The current luck-based system is flawed at its core. Now's as good a time as any to fix it.
... we already have the right to health care paid for by others. ...broad-based taxes are at least a lot fairer than placing the cost only on that segment of the community that plays by the rules. ...I'd rather that burden be shared more fairly by means of broad-based taxes.
The community is, thankfully, less selfish than you. ...Something that's a benefit to the entire community should be paid for by the entire community.
I have no ideological aversion to government involvement in health care financing.
There's quite a difference between the community deciding to create a system of insurance to address income security in old age, and the community deciding to take away the Constitutional rights of disfavored individuals.
That's just the first few pages of this thread.
Is what he typed not pure unabashed, unadulterated Communism? Did he not attempt to dress it up as 'Conservative pragmatism'??
These are things you hear come out of Nancy Pelosi's maw, or Obama's. I'm waiting for the post to soon come wherein JH will lecture us about income inequality and about how empowering government to mandate fairness is a good thing.
He's pushing an agenda which countermands everything we subscribe to as an ideology and belief system.
Communism is evil. It is anathema to liberty and incompatible with the Constitutional system set up to prevent government from becoming a meddlesome tyranny - which this poster blatantly advocates.
I am perfectly fine and good with his posting his Leftist propaganda here, as often as he likes. I think we should simply call it what it is and stop mincing words about it to pretend it isn't what it is.
