TheRealMafoo on 14 March 2010
| NJ5 said: Lord Flashheart brought up a very good point. If the government is responsible for the physical safety of the population, why shouldn't it also be responsible for health? As far as I can see, much more people die from bad health than from external threats that the military takes care of... |
Government does have the FDA. There is a difference between protecting people, and providing for people.
I am all for the government making sure doctors will not kill me because they are incompetent, or the FDA making sure a meat processing does not poison me.
These are ways government protects the health of it's people. Paying for a healthcare service however, is not the same thing.
If there was some magical way the government could provide healthcare to everyone, and it not mean someone is not forced to work in the service of others, I would be for it.
The government makes nothing. For them to provide for someone, first they have to take it away from someone else. That, I will never be for.
