George Carlin on Education and the owners of America

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Originally Posted by Danzig

i pay for everything else, but someone else should pay for my medical insurance? i think that's where things get a bit twisted. for some reason, medical care is suddenly someone else's responsibility? i keep hearing about the 47 million without health insurance, but i wonder how many of them turned down available coverage. i see it every day where i work. oh, i don't need that, i never get sick. oh, i don't want to pay that portion. so then everyone else on coverage pays a higher rate than they would if more people got in. then when the rube who turned down coverage needs it, well it's someone else's fault he didn't have it.

We will never agree on this.To me,healthcare is no different than fire protection, or police protection.Then add to that a good military,and a good educational system.Obviously the majority of Americans want healthcare to be based on how much wealth somebody has.Notice how we don't fight about the cost it takes to put out a poor person's fire? We have accepted that as a shared risk,but we don't want to accept shared risk with healthcare.We took the profit out of fighting fires.People aren't looking to make more and more money off the next fire that pops up.Healthcare needs to be more like that.