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Originally Posted by Gozer
Azure:
When I say people should be able to afford health care it doesn't mean that they should be able to afford it at the expense of more taxes, more debt and bigger deficits which result from subsidizing the costs to MAKE it more affordable.
Azure:
I'm not strictly against subsidies
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You know when subsidies can be good? When there are 5 million Americans living 5x below the poverty line, and there is no way they could afford any kind of coverage. Subsidizing health care for those people could work.
But subsidizing the cost of private insurance only creates the illusion that the cost is being reduced, and its not.
On one hand, the US can live with the extremely poor people needed subsidized care, on the other hand, there might be better ways to reduce cost so that you don't need to subsidize health care for the rest of the population that isn't covered.