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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
The funny thing is that insurance itself is a form of socialism, but the folks who love our current system don't see it that way. True capitalism would mean making enough money to buy your own medical care directly. Insurance is a group of people banding together, pooling their money, in the belief that it will go to those who need it. But if you expand that idea to 300 million "members" it suddenly becomes evil, somehow...
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The overwhelming majority of Americans that I know who are against the US government running a universal health care program are against it because they honestly don't think the US government can actually run it properly without causing a massive screwup.
If the whole system is reset, then it might work. The way it currently is? No way in hell.