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What do you think about the Healthcare fiasco?

I'm in the single-payer camp myself, but unlike many Democrats I can see why people hate Obamacare; I never could get on it or afford it. I wish both R and D would find middle ground and accept single-payer already.

I've heard many Republicans say that they would rather donate to charity than pay a healthcare tax. I can't blame them for wanting what is fundamentally theirs, but what really bothers me about this conservative viewpoint is that I think people are naturally greedy when it comes to charity. Do you really expect your neighbors to foot the bill on healthcare?
Despite all the minor abusers in a "government hand-out system", I believe that helping the general populous with general health care will systematically reduce cost on many economic levels.

Lets take, for example, a person who doesn't go to a hospital because he can't afford to go. He can't because in this country, due to lack of charity in his life, he is literally unable to afford healthcare. Sure, he thinks he can sleep off a minor health issue, but sometimes those small health issues snowball into much larger medical emergencies with higher cost. If this person had healthcare to begin with, he wouldn't have become such a huge burden on the economy. This extra waste of resources raises the general cost of healthcare and then proceeds to impact YOUR wallet on the rebound.

If you look at all this in an purely economic standpoint, you are far better off just paying into a single tax-payer system than relying on your neighbor's lackluster charity.

If this violates your rights, why is that so bad? You are in a better financial standpoint here. If the government doesn't intervene this process, you are stuck with unregulated insurance companies who can mark whatever cost they like, and you are stuck with people who choose not to pay into insurance and ultimately bring the cost way up! (which is why Obamacare sucked)