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Originally Posted by Sumeragi
Health Insurance: I see it as a social contract to pay for the possible use of emergency rooms and various treatments one might need in the course of life, including vaccines. It's a price that one needs to pay for living in modern society, unless that person wants to secede from the rest of the people.
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I wouldn't have a problem with paying a health tax for universal health care. What I objected to in that old post was the idea that insurance companies were going to continue siphoning off profits that could be going to patient care. The Obamacare requirement that overhead be kept to under a certain percentage mitigates some of that - but I just fundamentally object to for-profit health insurance -> the customer is no longer the patient but the shareholder (or more accurately, the CEO/executives and their compensation/bonuses of excess).