Reply #97: Yeah, right. Why not try applying the same reasoning to fire protection? [View All]

[eridani]

People who don't want to pay property taxes for the fire department should just have the option to go with a private plan. Just let them suffer the consequences of no response in case of fire, and let the whole neighborhood burn until the fire gets to a house that has paid its property taxes. My point is that most people WILL NOT EVER HAVE ANY FAWKING EXPERIENCES TO COMPARE, dammit! Just like they probably won't have their houses catch fire, either. There cannot be a "market" for products that you buy but are not likely to use.

Clinton and Edwards and Obama have learned exactly the wrong lesson from 1994. The insurance companies are Lucy, they all aspire to be Charlie Brown, and our health care is the football. Sit the insurance companies at the table and they will just snatch the ball again. Clinton's big mistake in 1994 was to leave the public entirely out of her planning. When the insurance companies turned on her, there was no one to speak up for a plan that they had no hand in crafting. The only seller's marker there will be is if we all stand up and holler for single payer. Then the PTB might try to buy us off with some sort of compromise like Edwards is offering.