Comment Re:You shouldn't need insurance for most things (Score 1) 739
And if it's literally free, you eliminate massive overhead.
NOTHING THE GOVERNMENT "PROVIDES" IS FREE!
Great galloping $deity! Who is really that stupid?
The military is "free", right? You didn't get a bill for the latest military action did you? Oh wait, it costs a freaking fortune. If you pay taxes you paid for *some* of the military action. A great deal of the cost is simply being passed on to "the future" along with all the other "free" services delivered by the government.
There is no perpetual motion machine. There is no system that provides output without input and the government is a FAR from frictionless engine.
If you want to say that the current U.S. healthcare system is extremely screwed up, I agree wholeheartedly.
There are a number of serious problems with cost merely being one. As for ObamaCare, anyone who thinks that adding thousands of pages of new legislation created in secret meetings with the insurance industry and passed in late night voting will simplify healthcare and lower costs in the U.S. is a moron and every legislator that voted for it is a scoundrel and a thief.