Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?

Re:Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis? by roenxi on Monday September 10, 2018 @06:14PM (#17955650)

The issue with that is that it represents a breakdown of property rights. I'd like, but don't know how, to find a less judgmental way of putting that point because from what I've heard the US healthcare system is unfair and unpleasent. That said - what you are describing is in a strictly literal sense theft.

This quickly comes back to grandparent's point that the terms 'we' and 'survive' need to be more established. I can't imagine a single person who thinks that a situation that gives rise to advice like that is acceptable.

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Re:Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis? by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:41AM (#17957221)

Healthcare billing is too broken for me to endorse blindly paying things. Routine care, co-pays, planned procedures, sure, pay your goddamn bills. Get hit by a car, loaded into an ambulance, and stuck with a $15k bill that your insurance company refuses to pay because it's "out of network"? Tell them to pound sand, they have no right to extract your life savings in rents simply because they happened to be the hospital closest to the relevant ambulance.

Yes, it's technically "theft", but the property right being violated has no business being granted in the first place.

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