Toronado3800
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One of my co workers ran me in this conversation today and convinced me human life is special. Well, I decided Hitler's life and the lives of morally repugnant folks were no longer special.
But anyways, if it is special then yeah, everyone deserves healthcare. The wealthy will always have better in home nurses and the like just because in real life there is a line society must draw, but since everyone can vote everyone is special.
Damn. That felt sappy.
Nothing wrong with sappy, but I don't think the view you present here is practical. You hint at one the key problems (the bolded part above). Apparently we can agree that miscreants like Hitler are "less special", and either don't deserve health care, or don't deserve it as much as others do. But what about less extreme cases. What about a 'normal' murderer? What about a child-abuser? Or - let's move away from criminal cases - what about the guy who chain smokes all his life and then gets lung cancer. Does society owe him health care? How much? What about the daredevil who puts himself into a coma with some crazy stunt gone awry? Do we owe him as well?
And most days I don't care if folks live or die. I just want universal healthcare so everyone HAS to pay to their ability ...
What should they be paying for exactly? Their health care? Their family's? All of society's?
I agree there are problems. Deciding who steps off the moral cliff is one. Who should decide.....I suppose it should be the current system, a jury and judge. Perfect, no. But while a moral issue thank goodness the population of death row is not so high.
Far as making everyone pay to eliminate the freeloaders, naturally the poor will have less ability to pay. What can you do.
Should dare devils be covered? I suppose the insurance companies could be allowed to sue folks who jump motor cycles though flaming hoops to recollect their costs. How do circus performers even in vegas get insurance? The company which produces a show like "Ka" must just pay through the nose for work comp.
I agree there are fuzzy grey areas which will always be up for debate.