ACA Repeal/Replace: Progressives Face Moral Dilemma

[David Horn]

(01-18-2017, 11:25 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Do I use/need health insurance enough to pay the price for it or sacrifice something else that's already being paid for to afford it? The group that's an important real world factor that you've ignored and don't show much sympathy for and often treat me as being one. Sooner or later, you better take my age (year of birth) more seriously because we are probably on the verge of dethroning the hippies and ushering in an era of American pragmatism. I see 50 some progressive Democrats have decided to place themselves on ignore as they symbolically join hands with the stop America from uniting, shifting its focus on middle America and becoming great again.

Like police protection, healthcare is a massive and interlocking system.  The closer to 100% involvement, the more efficient and effective it is.  That's especially true now, because things like MRIs are expensive and need to be used to justify their existence.  That's the same argument we use for universal security.  Would you like to live in a world where security consisted of a basket of private contracts, with only some people participating, instead of our current system of local, state and national police and investigative services?