tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300274096976708238.post4299213283624369488..comments2024-03-15T00:28:21.349-07:00Comments on THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KIMBA: CONTROLLING BEHAVIOR THROUGH LEGISLATION AND TAXATIONKimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15313026985830190914noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300274096976708238.post-82292562551426093362009-03-26T06:49:00.000-07:002009-03-26T06:49:00.000-07:00Thanks for your comment, albeit one that is slight...Thanks for your comment, albeit one that is slightly overstated. <BR/><BR/>I would like to believe humanity would win out over any such financial considerations, but it would be naive to think money isn't a huge determinating factor in American health care already.<BR/><BR/>I understand the premise, the healthy would bare a financial burden on the behalf of the less healthy. I get it; but they are just going to have to understand that the current under-insured, or uninsured are going to be less healthy than those that enjoy full coverage today.<BR/><BR/>I can live with this, just as I can live with the financially healthy having to bare a greater financial (tax) burden for those less financially healthy. <BR/><BR/>Call it a redistribution of wealth if you will, or egiltarianism, or the beginnings of a socialistic society, but this is what we need to do in both areas. <BR/><BR/>There will be voices to call for governmental actions in order to force the populous to become healthier. Interestingly, there have been no such calls to take actions to force the populous to become more financially healthy, just a mass bailout. <BR/><BR/>I think that is where geithner needs to focus. Getting America more financially healthy, not through bailouts, but through regulating refinancing to livable mortgage rates, and in targeting credit card companies and their burdenous interest rates to some, if not most.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15313026985830190914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1300274096976708238.post-16064820923329609332009-03-25T06:02:00.000-07:002009-03-25T06:02:00.000-07:00It’s the slippery slope of universal care that sho...It’s the slippery slope of universal care that should trouble us all. Wait until medical treatments are withheld to save a few dollars. Decisions about treatment and the quality of life will have to be made by a bureaucrat somewhere. A compelling argument can be made to exclude just about anybody … if not now then very soon. And why stop with withholding treatment? If an unborn baby has a higher propensity for cancer or an expensive liver dysfunction as an adult, wouldn’t it be better just to solve the problem now? Let’s save a few bucks. How can a 50 year old with arthritis enjoy any real quality of life? Let's just solve the problem now. <BR/><BR/>If we have learned anything from history it should be man’s potential to express incredible evil upon itself. Is it possible for a society to make seemingly good decision after good decision but result in a horrific cumulative effect? I guess it’s just perspective. Many oppressive regimes in the past have made what they thought were really good decisions for them. We might just be ready to crest that slippery slope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com