Georgia Takes Step Towards Health Care Freedom

Volpone · Apr 2, 2010

I have USAA auto insurance. And home. In between I needed motorcycle insurance and USAA doesn't do that, so the pointed me to Progressive (Mmmmm.... Flo.... ). But I digress. The point is, when I wanted to get health insurance, I called up USAA (which is based in San Antonio IIRC). They theoretically could've given me health insurance here in Oregon except: 1) I'd just injured my knee and Oregon law prevents them from adjusting the coverage or rates to factor in that risk and 2) I stupidly admitted that I smoked a half a cigar in November, when my friend had a baby girl and again, Oregon law to "protect" me meant that USAA was unwilling to insure me based on Oregon law.

Ward · Apr 2, 2010

Muad Dib said: ↑

Eightball said: ↑

Health care freedom is the right for the health care companies to rape your wallet.
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As opposed to the Federal gubmint raping your wallet.
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It's a question of scale - with a state-limited company, by definition, the company's power is also limited. If the feds have control, the power to continue the abuse is practically endless.

Jamey Whistler · Apr 2, 2010

economist Walter E. Williams said:

"For Congress to guarantee a right to health care, or any other good or service, whether a person can afford it or not, it must diminish someone else's rights, namely their rights to their earnings. The reason is that Congress has no resources of its very own. Moreover, there is no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy giving them those resources. The fact that government has no resources of its very own forces one to recognize that in order for government to give one American citizen a dollar, it must first, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn. To argue that people have a right that imposes obligations on another is an absurd concept. A better term for new-fangled rights to health care, decent housing and food is wishes. If we called them wishes, I would be in agreement with most other Americans for I, too, wish that everyone had adequate health care, decent housing and nutritious meals. However, if we called them human wishes, instead of human rights, there would be confusion and cognitive dissonance. The average American would cringe at the thought of government punishing one person because he refused to be pressed into making someone else's wish come true. None of my argument is to argue against charity. Reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pockets to do so is despicable and deserves condemnation."
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