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Originally posted by Norfleet:You STILL have to pay for it, but instead of paying for your OWN problems, you're ending up paying for someone ELSE's problems. I don't see this as a good thing, as it certainly provides a strong disincentive for people to deal with their own personal problems. Just observe the level of service you can get in Communist countries, where nobody is motivated to do anything because they gain little from their own actions. If people have to deal with their own problems, the ones that are willing to work to overcome their issues succeed, the slackers perish. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

That is really false, why are we living in society? It is not for the sake of the economist as it seem you are believing, nor it is to solve our own problems, with a good social system, you may at a time pay for another, but in the main time other are paying for you for other thing, it comes back!!!we aren't a pack of lonely bears in a forest as you seem to believe it we are HUMANS, it is normal to help each other (Oh and don't come up with your Christian charity bull****, that has no relevance and is only arrogant).
As for the communist countrys there are a lot people who think, it was better then, even if you hadn't such a high lifestile (at least in east germany), so this can't be the point. And the purpose discussed here isn't to make a the USA a communist State, no one want this, you should better make comparision with european lands like say Sweden, you would be surprised how good there lives,despite the fact of there high taxes and high social system.
The point is does feel people better with private health care or not. And it seems not.