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Don't let it get you upset. I'm on your side on this. I've found that on HN there's a large number of 20-something geeks who are book-smart but life-dumb, as well as a large percentage folks who are frankly very close to being sociopaths, if not outright sociopaths. So yeah, a lot of HN readers are going to be utter pinheads when it comes to debating about healthcare. The reality of people's health experiences is very messy, very random, extremely stressful and utterly terrifying and unfair at times. It's not about simply shopping for the lowest price on some commodity at a local store. It's about a loved one who is vomiting blood and you don't know why and it's 2am. It's about being told you need medical insurance then getting denied because you have a pre-existing health imperfection on some long list of terms -- no shit, sherlock, right? It's about the primary breadwinner of a family being diagnosed with cancer at age 30. It's about an expecting couple being told that based on tests of their fetus that the baby is very likely to have Down's syndrome. Guess what? Not too long ago, I had a random, extremely stressful, and utterly terrifying healthcare situation and it involves me, bleeding lot of blood and not knowing why. It just so that I have a different perspective. So fuck shopping around. Fuck the market. Fuck economics. Fuck capitalism. Fuck the Republican and really the Libertarian outlook. Fuck everyone who thinks it's every man for himself, I got mine, everyone else can go fuck themselves. Until they wake up one day to find they've got some horrible problem and need help too. You know when it makes sense for everyone to compete and not give a rat's ass about anyone else? Say you're running a 100-yard dash. Or playing a video game contest. Those are true competitions, may the best man wins. But when you're sick, your family, a neighbor, a fellow citizen, that is precisely the time when it is NOT okay and NOT humane or civilized to think like that. I don't give a rat ass about capitalism, socialism, or any political ideology, just that the healthcare system works esave as many lives as possible and preferably without charging an arm and a leg for said medical care. So either show why I am wrong or don't comment at all. |
Nobody's going to take the time to educate you on all that just to drag you up to the level so that you can understand why your proposal, once you got around to making it, would be wrong. That's your job.