Virginia federal court rules Obamacare unconstitutional

[Sailor Steve]

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.

Some excellent points. I'm personally not against government having a hand in this sort of thing. I just believe our Federal government was created for a specific purpose, and this wasn't it. None of the other services you described are provided by the Feds. They are necessary, and in the case of police and fire departments, the government is the only way to make them work. The state and local governments do a very good job of managing those services. Perhaps medical care could be run the same way.