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Originally Posted by Riot
I wouldn't characterize most who disagree with health reform as selfish individualists.
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Well, they are against sharing risk. There are many reasons for that. One main one is the lack of common blood(melting pot.) People are much less interested in sharing risk with people that aren't like themselves. If you're Swedish, then you're probably going to be more more willing to want to share risk with Swedes. That's because of ethnic pride, and common cultural values. Other than this no-common-tribe factor though, one can't deny that most of those against healthcare reform are simply selfish and/or stubborn. Look, when you have a couple paying 5k a year, and they don't want to change it? That's pretty damn stubborn. The thing about a lot of these folks that gets me is how they so quickly change their tune about the value of human life. Something doesn't even have a brain yet, and they consider it so precious. Well, fine, but notice how they change their tune later on if that baby grows up poor. Couple weeks ago they had some lady show up at one of those arena clinics they've been having. There is nothing they could really do for her. She had breast cancer eating her up. Amazing how if she was 2 months in the womb they'd care about her, but not now. Now they think she's getting what she must be deserving. At that same arena clinic they had a nurse come for care. They weren't getting enough hours, at either hospital they worked at, to qualify for medical coverage.