Scandinavia Isn't a Socialist Paradise

[sturg33]

Frankly I wanted a public option. The reason we need a public option that would be optional pay in is because of people wit-pre-existing conditions. Now that those people are getting insurance the insurance companies are jacking up rates to make everyone covee the cost. A public option would have been run cheaper and still take care of those in need. I don't think a public option would have killed the free market insurance sector, but if it did wouldn't that be capitalism at work? Sturg will say no because "the governmental has no business selling health insurance" but you leave those people out there who'd have to pay tremendously large premium with pre-pre-existing conditions and I think as a society we can do better.

I'd like universal healthcare and understand the costs of it but a public option would have been the best compromise.

How could you argue it would be free market if it is paid for by forced submission by government subsidy? And then of course, private companies would stop offering insurance to people because the public option would be there (paid for by taxes)

 

[weso1]

I think it's a very dangerous idea that capitalism has failed. It's an idea that's taken off, but the whole defense of this idea is that capitalism has failed because of corruption. But corruption is not dependent on capitalism. Corruption is born in humanism.

 

[sturg33]

I think it's a very dangerous idea that capitalism has failed. It's an idea that's taken off, but the whole defense of this idea is that capitalism has failed because of corruption. But corruption is not dependent on capitalism. Corruption is born in humanism.

Tough to argue that free market capitalism has failed in the US bc we haven't seen it in decades