[ExI] What Makes People Vote Republican

[Emlyn]

2008/9/19 Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu>:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 03:42:40PM +1030, Emlyn wrote:
>
>> And yes, as someone else said in this thread, the idea that the
>> democrats are socialist is pretty amusing; both of your major parties
>
> Hell, Obama's the one who's been *against* mandatory health insurance,
> which doesn't make sense for risk pool management, but is nicely
> non-socialist.
>

The discourse about health insurance is amusing in a weird way. We
have health insurance in Oz, but it's an entirely optional system
given that government provided health care covers everything you need
- our family has gotten along just fine without any insurance.

I think mandatory insurance is probably a bad idea; it starts to warp
the very idea of insurance. Should insurers have to insure bad risk
clients, the same as everyone else? Not, I would think. Universal
basic healthcare is a job for the government, for sure.

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