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Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:43PM (#35128937)
> Punishing people for not having accounted for black swan events in their risk assessment is also not scalable. Do we want people to do useful stuff, or to spend their time digging the rule book to ensure they've accounted for every eventuality?

So you want government to provide complete health insurance, after all. we want people to spend their time doing usefull stuff not studying the very complex intersection of all known diseases and medical beurocracy?

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Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by AYBABTME on Sunday March 12, 2023 @09:53PM (#35129709)
I do, in fact.
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Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by rjbwork on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:48AM (#35131218)
>So you want government to provide complete health insurance, after all. we want people to spend their time doing usefull stuff not studying the very complex intersection of all known diseases and medical beurocracy?

Yes, obviously. That we have the bulk of our population in precarious wage slavery under threat of medical bankruptcy at best, and a slow painful agonizing death of preventable causes at worse, is a crime against humanity given this is the richest country in human history.

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Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by hellojesus on Monday March 13, 2023 @03:45PM (#35141377)
But would the government run solution sacrifice personal freedom? After all, when you socialize costs, you get free rider problems.

Will I have to pay more if I'm obese? Can I get cut off the system for not taking a vaccine?

I'm hesitant to make the government a partner in my personal choices regarding diet, recreational fun like hang gliding, lifestyle choices, etc.

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Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by matwood on Monday March 13, 2023 @03:07AM (#35132160)
> So you want government to provide complete health insurance, after all.

Yes. This would be the single biggest boon to small business the US had ever enacted.

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Re:Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federa... by BeFlatXIII on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:49AM (#35134994)
Yes, exactly.
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