[thecavemaster]

First off, society already does that. In an emergency situation there is no hospital anywhere in this country that will refuse a person in a grave condition, and you know that.

Secondly, what is affordable, and what is not affordable? People have the tendency to buy all of the latest technological gadgets or participate in whatever expensive forms of entertainment they may choose, and then claim "insurance buying abilities" impossible. I know that you being a resident of eastern Kentucky, see blatant examples of what I am referring to. How do you measure the impact of someones failure to recognize priorities and then state what is affordable or unaffordable?


BTW, Massachusetts residents claim that their health insurance premiums have gone up since their state mandated program went into effect.

Kimball, me and you probably agree on this: allowing people who are capable of accepting responsibility for their own lives to "opt out" harms the individual and society.... I would like to see welfare reform where a person who gets a job gets to keep certain benefits, which would, ultimately, lead to savings. As it is now, welfare recepients often "lose" money by going to work. We, as a society, could be much wiser in our policies.