Re:Ask YC: Health Insurance?
by erdos2 on Sunday May 25, 2008 @09:42PM
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This is Objectivism gone awry. A society of Ayn Randians will ultimately face challenges that leads to its collapse.
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I'm not an Objectivist.
I think this is Ayn Rand hate gone awry. You don't know anything about me. And all I really said here is people should be responsible for themselves; that's not some crazy fringe idea, and it's not limited to Objectivists.
And I said it specifically about economics and smoking. Smoking is a choice. I think if people want to damage their health by smoking they should be allowed to, but they should have to pay for it. Do you really think that's crazy and would destroy society?
And your view is exactly why the USA is 37th on The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems, below countries like Colombia (GDP $337.286 billion), Chile (GDP $163.792 billion) and Costa Rica (GDP $56.777 billion). The USA's GDP is $13.794 trillion. At least you beat the communists (Cubans) by three places...