>>>Why should Marcia be forced to contribute to the health care of a drinker like you and myself?
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>>>ROF,L and LOL!!!! Andy and I have a martini on the deck every night (when the weather is nice) while he grills our dinner. The point is, I do not want the government taking care of me and I do not want it to take anymore of my hard earned money so that it can give it away to someone else that it thinks I should be taking care of.
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>>OK How about :
>>Why should Tamar be forced to contribute to the health care of a drinker like you, Marcia, Andy and myself? ;)
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>Because at the same time you guys would be contributing to the care of my family that includes several people with long-term medical conditions. And we'd all be contributing to the care of people with really devastating conditions. The larger the pool, the easier it is to spread the risk and keep the overall cost down.
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>Tamar

The key word here is forced. This is a free country, yes? Health care is not a right. If it was in the Constitution it wound be worded like the other rights, ie the State will make no restriction upon the individual's access to health care. Rights are not forced actions, which providing health care would entail.

Let me try another example.

I have a friend who is 35, single, Catholic, a personal trainer and one of the healthiest people I know. He only carries catastrophic insurance. Why should he subsidize the health care of another friend of mine whom he cannot stand because she smokes, eats fast food 3 times a week, has diabetes, smokes marijuana, drinks daily and has had 3 abortions.

Full disclosure : This is not a random example, these are actual friends with one caveat. The girl died a couple years ago due to complications from diabetes, because she did the absolute minimum to take care of herself.