Caleb Eugene Plain Designs interfaces, remembers to pay his electric bill on time most months, goes to church most Sundays, speaks (or writes) what is on his mind before he considers others often, misspells words consistently, and hardly resembles the above photo in reality.
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"What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to shocks, but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date."
I don’t get most of the arguments against the health care bill coming from the right. You normally hear two things:
- Everything will get rationed, people will die.
- Competition will be forced out when it cannot compete with the government.
Ok, so believe one or the other, but the two don’t work together. If the government is killing people with its plan (seriously?), what stops a private insurance company from swooping in and picking up customers who prefer not to die under the government plan? What sane business man wouldn’t open his own insurance company as an alternative for citizens? The worse the government plan gets, the more customers he acquires.
And if the government’s plan is a success (meaning that the citizens are happy with it) and other insurance companies go out of business, who cares? That’s capitalism, sort of.
As I’ve written before, I don’t think the government’s plan will work and I don’t think this country can afford it, but I’ll be happy to put my ideology aside and buy the cheapest health insurance I can find when the time comes. I don’t care where it comes from as long as it has decent coverage and doesn’t cost a fortune.
