Bearster
2007-10-03 17:29:49
ZZMike: I have my own catastrophic medical insurance with a $5000 deductible. I assure you that I pay nowhere NEAR $9000 a year!
Note that insurance is not the same thing as “coverage” of boo-boos and bandaids.
Insurance protects you from a financial wipe-out. But this is not what most people think they want to today. Most people seem to have a victim mentality and want to abdicate responsibility for their own lives and have someone somehow take care of them. Thus the perennial appeal of socialized medicine, socialized schools, socialized roads and trains, etc.
As if the free market gives us shortages and rationing of food, clothing, computers, Internet bandwidth, blogs…
