Stace said:
It is limiting them because you are being selfish and greedy,
No. One cannot be "selfish and greedy", not in the way you're trying to make it mean. The socialists are confused with the meaning of these words...any many others. "Selfish" means being concerned with affairs of the self, a perfectly reasonable attitude for any healthy person, and "greedy" means, more than anything, seeking to grab more than one's fair share of resources held in common. A man's wages aren't subject to the concept of greed, unless you're discussing the parasites and politicians seeking to take those wages away from the man who earned them.
"Selfish" is a good thing. It drives all commerce, all innovation, and all concepts of independence.
"greed" is a socialistic phenomenon, and you're right, it's evil. You're just not using the words correctly.
So, now that you have that straight, let me point out that in the context of nationalized socialistic medicine, the greedy people are the freeloaders, not the people who resent being taxed to pay for someone else's medicine. And the "selfish" ones, if we're using the connotation you desire to imply, are again, the freeloaders seeking to take that which isn't theirs.
Oh, did you're post say something past the first ten words? Let's see...
Stace said:
rather than helping out your fellow American citizens.
Well, don't know about Canada, or Britain, both of which have ruined their medical systems via socialism, but in America citizens helped each other on a voluntary basis. "Voluntary" means the individual choosing to help has an equal chance to choose to walk away without facing official sanctions, such as prison for not paying taxes improperly wasted on welfare for the useless.
Stace said:
Not everyone has the same good luck and fortune as you.
So? That means I'm supposed to put myself in the poorhouse? Oh, and it's not luck, it's ability. EVERYONE had an equal if not better opportunity at the start from me. I was born po' white trash and worked myself out of my roots. I have no sympathy whatsoever for people blaming their plights on bad roots. That simple bullshit excuse isn't my problem. The opportunities available to me were available to anyone.
Stace said:
Some people simply cannot afford health care, and yet, they make too much to qualify for Medicare/Medicaid. Some people become injured and/or disabled, and their insurance caps out, and then they're SOL. And then, say they get fired because they've been out of work so long...well, due to their injury/disability, they can no longer work, and now they can't even afford groceries, let alone health care.
It absolutely disgusts me that people whine about us not giving aid to the poor, starving people in Africa, or who don't care about the fact that millions of our tax dollars are rebuilding Iraq, and yet, we can't even help out the folks right here at home. Why should we help others...HOW can we help others...when we can't even help ourselves?
Yeah, that's what charities are for. You know, charity. Where a free man contributes (ie gives without coercion) his own money to causes that interest him. Under a charitable system, unwed pregnant mothers can find homes to gestate in peace, but drug addicts might find themselves out of options sooner. What a shame, eh?
Oh, and of course, you know full well that I'll never be caught complaining that our government doesn't spend enough money on people in foreign countries who already have their own governments to sponge off. Heck, if AIDS and malaria actually manage to de-populate Africa, I can see some fresh real estate potential...