<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">But universal health insurance does have a placebo effect :)</span><br>btw, being so cynical how could I have ever been a social progressive? well, since you asked, my dad was a communist in the '30s, and after being in WWII, he was a liberal the rest of his life. He thought if you tell anyone what to do, you are in some way being like Hitler. Not to say he was libertarian, no; he had no core beliefs of any sort. <br>Squishy liberal would be the appropriate moniker.<br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 9/20/09, spike <i><spike66@att.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: spike <spike66@att.net><br>Subject: [ExI] insurance may be dangerous, was RE: surefire way to prevent street robbery<br>To: "'ExI chat list'"
<extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 11:01 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"> <br>...On Behalf Of Post Futurist<br>...<br> Subject: [ExI] surefire way to prevent street robbery<br> <br> <br> You tell the mugger, "I'm a transhumano-extropian", and he will take<br>out his own wallet, saying, "so sorry, here is all my cash"...<br><br><br><br>Because I was camping for a solid month, I am way behind on email and news,<br>but I just heard the Senator from Chappaquiddick passed away some time last<br>month. <br><br>When I read about the commentary regarding muggers, I think of the health<br>reform plan that would require everyone, even the young and healthy to buy<br>health insurance. Seems to make sense in a way, for they are at some risk<br>of developing health problems, even if low, and their having little capital<br>means the
non-insured young externalize their risk onto society.<br><br>But here's a new spin for you: the money they are forced to spend on health<br>insurance could otherwise be spent on moving into a safer neighborhood. If<br>we compel the young and healthy to buy health insurance, we may actually<br>*increase* their overall risk of being injured or seriously killed.<br><br>spike <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" href="/mc/compose?to=extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>