On Sep 6, 2009, at 7:16 PM, John Williams wrote:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Bruce Bostwick<[email protected]
> wrote:
If not, what exactly *do* you
propose as an alternative to public-option health care for people
who aren't
fortunate enough to be able to afford health insurance that will
actually
cover treatments?
What exactly do you propose for everyone in the world who cannot
afford basic health care such as childbirth assistance and infant care
and vaccination?
For "everyone in the world", I'm not sure any proposal I could make
would be relevant.
Beyond proposals, though, there is a very strong argument to be made
that it's inhumane to simply leave people to die if they can't find
insurance coverage to pay for medical care that costs hundreds of
times what they could afford on their own. And that market logic is a
poor fit to this particular problem.
Unfortunately, it's culturally acceptable, even popular, to ignore
that argument completely ..
"What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command? It is a
warning that institutions endure, that symbols endure when their
meaning is lost, that there is no summa of all attainable knowledge."
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