Spideyjvc Wrote:I don't care about some kid I'll never meet being saved by this. I'm not getting sick much, I don't really need this. I'd be paying for some other person's benefit. If I don't even support myself, I shouldn't have to help others get support.
What's that? Little Suzie in Texas needs surgery that her family can't afford? That's nice, but don't make me pay for that shit. I don't even pay for my own health care, and if I had to then I wouldn't. For me it's not worth it, because I rarely get sick with anything other than the cold.
I guess you can say I'm a bit too spoiled by the American "rights for the individual who can afford it" outlook.
Keeping an open-mind and ignoring any kind of negative stigma's attached to his films, I really think you should see Michael Moore's Sicko. It will really make you think about how healthcare is executed in this country as compared to the rest of the developed world. Oh, and Cuba, which also has universal health care.
And @ the bolded section: the only thing that's certain in life is life's uncertainties. That's the reason you're forced to buy auto insurance when applying for a driver's license. So you can't find a virus or a bacterium or some environmental mutagen at fault in a court of a law to get the funds necessary for the damage they cause to you. It's imperative you still have some means of protecting yourself, and if you catch something a lot worse than a cold and need extensive medical treatment while unemployed and uninsured, you can pretty much kiss your life goodbye.
In short, this goes back to the whole controversy over making it a "right to pay for a service." It's the notion of keeping people alive, like Holypie mentioned above. And I don't know about you, but if little Suzie ended up becoming the woman who develops a cure for cancer that cures a form you develop, Spidey, I'm sure you'd be grateful at saving her life earlier.