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Originally Posted by August
Where do you get the idea that not for profit means people work for free?
Let me turn your question around. Should fire fighters and policemen be able to set their own rates? Should you have to pay, say 70 thousand dollars, before the FD will come and put your house fire out? Or maybe you think it's not unreasonable to pay 100 thousand bucks before the cops will investigate who murdered your family?
Those are the type of things that people without insurance, and all too many with insurance, have to deal with before getting medical care. As long as that is the case you can't tell me our present health care system is all that great.
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Easy man, wasnt meaning to strike a nerve.
but yes, i think firefighters and policemen and Drs and Nurses should be paid and paid well.
I think our present tax dollars cover police and fire services well enough.
I just dont think that the mandate of Obamacare is the end all be all answer to our problems.
and i certainly dont think the government is the end all be all answer to our problems either.
a dangerous precedent we are setting in America is greater and greater government reliance.
soon, it seems, the government will be all there is and your choices will be to either a. work for the federal government b. collect welfare or c. be homeless