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Kasz216 on 13 March 2010
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mrstickball said:
Kasz216 said:
mrstickball said:

Lets go further, Mafoo -

Why is the government merely providing healthcare to us? Of all things, there are issues equally as important -

1. Homelessness. Why doesn't the government ensure that every person has a house to live in, and one that has enough space to ensure everyone has 'breathing room'?
2. Unemployment. Why doesn't the government make sure that there is no unemployment?
3. Food. Why not ensure that every person doesn't starve by forcing all grocers give to people that need the food, rather than put a price on it?

4. Women. I mean, there have to be a lot of single men out there, why can't the government fix singleness, too? I bet it'd make every man in the country happy!

I mean, those are more important than health care, no?

1 and 3 are actually FAR more important then healthcare.

When it comes to health... actual Healthcare isn't nearly as vital as you'd think compaired to such aspects as culture, how you love, stress.

See, that is what I am thinking.

Healthcare is primarily geared towards towards the idea that everyone should be assured a lifespan of 80+ years, and die only of natural causes. Whereas homelessness and food are far more critical to the assurance that the person can at least live a decent lifespan.

That and healthcare is mostly reactive and not preventative in most cases.

While stuff like culture, stress and how you take care of your body are preventitive measures.

I know we'll disagree here... but I do think that the government should find a way to provide food for any citizen who wants very basic government food.  Provide actually food mind you, not things like foodstamps... because of the lessons food banks tell us.

If we replaced national foodstamps with a national foodbanks system where you send food we could probably serve 4-5 times as many people for the same amount of money.

That and it's much harder to abuse.  You can't really sell the government food that anybody could get for free if they wanted.