Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger

Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by Randgalt on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:34PM (#12307128)

That's an excellent point. Medicare and SSI are equally bad programs that should be phased out.

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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by VonGuard on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:42PM (#12307211)

I often wonder if John Galt ever found himself living alone in a room with no one to take care of him in his old age.

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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by splintercell on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:33AM (#12312335)

> I often wonder if John Galt ever found himself living alone in a room with no one to take care of him in his old age.

I hope you understand that to Objectivists that sounds like saying "I often wonder if Frederick Douglass ever found himself suffer an accident at work with no master to take care of him because he isn't a slave".

I am sure there are better arguments possible against objectivist position, but the one you made is rather naive one.

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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by nappy-doo on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:52PM (#12307294)

Who is John Galt? :)

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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by tn13 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:03PM (#12310162)

I think John Galt would prefer to die than use someone else's money by force to take care of himself. I think that is very honorable.

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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by wavefunction on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @03:51PM (#12307820)

It's true, Galt was a fictional caricature.

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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by mr_tyzic on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:47AM (#12310788)

Ayn Rand sure did though.

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