Badassbab on 17 October 2012
| Marks said: And lastly healthcare I STRONGLY disagree that it should be universal. How is it fair that regular people have to pay for the people who are 100 pounds overweight and smoke/drink excessively? Here is a really good comparison on the pros and cons of universal healthcare: http://www.balancedpolitics.org/universal_health_care.htm and IMO the cons WAY outweigh the pros (especially #6, #9 and #14 if you do check that link out) |
In most countries with universal healthcare alcohol and cigarettes are taxed heavily plus the unhealthy pay tax too, it all works out. The US system is by far the least efficient compared to other industrialised countries.
Also you may be a hardcore free market lover but don't forget the trillions the US has spent on R&D at it's top universities, the Pentagon, NASA etc all of which produced the high technology the filtered into the private sector that you enjoy today (the internet was a Cold War Pentagon project for example). That wasn't the free market working there but rather taxpayer funded state capitalism. Taxpayers pay for the initial risk, Corporations rake in the profit 
