Monday, April 12, 2010

they have a point but they are wrong

The HCR requires everyone to purchase Health insurance. Libertarians are right, it does. However here is the situation which liberarians don't address. An emergency medical situation, car accident, industrial accident, plane crash, train crash, multiple injured persons, many appaearently serious, some unconscious. If they are given med treatment, as we would all insist happen, who pays if they have no insurance, the cost of medical care for serious medical conditions is so high, only the richest of us can afford it out of our own resources. We insist hopsiatals admit and treat emergency cases, publicly supported hospitals are required to by law. The public does pay in the end to fund public hospitals. The numbers out are about $1,000 per person per year on all of us to support hospitals we require treat everyone. Young working people who choose not to purchase insurnance and have acquired little resources in their short working lives, children whose parents do not purchase insurance for them, un employed, etc, etc all do get treatment and we pay for it. We ouls not tolerate sick children thrown oout of hospitals untreated becasue parents are not paying for health insurance. We would not tolerate accident victims untreated lying on the street or the factory floor until their insurance can be verified. Why is the president not making clear in a national speech why mandatory insurance mere relabels what we already do, and if anything requires us citizens to act responsibly about our health care. We demand it for each of us when we need it, but some of us choose to evade the costs. Libertarians ought to be suppoolrting this, or advocating some type of qucik read implant so each of us if unconscious and injured can have our insurance verified, those who have no insurance, let 'em bleed to death on the street. The Administration should make this and other aspects of HCR a daily mantra to counter the daily chorus of lies. It is never enough to build a better mousetrap, not if the competition have a vital welf interest in destroying you.