Reply #64: Heh. If they aren't getting it by now, they're never going to get it.

[krispos42]

You will be born helpless. You will not shed this helplessness until nearly 20, even if you were born with no genetic condition that requires treatment or correction.


You will grow old. You will develop illnesses and conditions, heart attacks and strokes. You will need medicines and surgery and therapy. Eventually, you will be unable to care for yourself anymore and have to move into a nursing home.


Along the way, you might catch a serious disease or get injured in a car accident, work accident, or from a recreational activity such as baseball or sex.


So everybody pays from every dime they make so everybody is covered from conception to grave. And the only entity that can do that for the duration of the United States of America, with your best interests in mind and without the need for profit to diminish that care, is the Federal government.

By taking care of the bureaucratic part, the eternal, unchanging, non-innovative business of processing paperwork and moving around money, to the Federal government, we keep the costs down and the treatments up.

And by the Federal government having medical records centralized, statistical analysis of treatments and illnesses can be performed, leading to better use of medical resources and even lower costs.




Six short paragraphs. If they can't comprehend that by now... it's hopeless.