[gnaritas]

> This is a ridiculous statement. Only around 15% of the country is uninsured and only a small percentage of that number would be "dying" at any given time.

You ought to stop relying on your gut so often and look at actual data. 45k people[1] a year in this country die from lack of healthcare. The only thing ridiculous here is you.

> Central planning has been repeatedly tried and proven to be less successful than the market mechanism we trust with every other sector of our economy.

In regards to healthcare, absolutely false; socialized systems in the world work far better than market based systems, this is simply a fact.

> I'm advocating the government give people subsidies to help them get insurance in this proposed truly free market.

Subsidies are a shit solution to any problem, they don't work in free markets because markets simply raise prices to feed off the subsidies. See college tuition rates.

[1] http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-find...