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Originally Posted by Frieza_Prexus
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This type of sentiment makes for exceptionally bad policy. Why should an otherwise healthy diabetic receive free supplies at the expense of the tax base? Can we start buying groceries for everyone too? (wait a minute, that's already happening).
No one's being "murdered", and it's a complete disservice to the dialogue to frame it so strongly. Few people object to a safety net for the truly and permanently disabled. But why should otherwise healthy diabetics get a free pass? If a person is reasonably capable of supporting themselves, there should be no duty to directly subsidize their consumer requirements.
Also, I think it's somewhat insulting to diabetics to make a general implication that their condition impairs them so substantially that they cannot provide for their own medical needs.
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As individuals you cant really farm out insulin. A few can change their diets etc... But its not something everyone can do. Its either corporate socialism. Or social socialism. They're the same damn thing. Except in one there is a really unrestricted ponzi scheme. It seems we either defend and regulate private industry or work out a way to do this fairly as a group.
An alternative solution is to give diabetics the option to opt in to a group plan in order to do it more cheaply. But why force diabetics who earn a living to pay for those that don't?
The reality is though that we can do a lot in this world if wealth was more equitably distributed. Period. Since where going with obamacare and this thread is about our new social health system. I said fuck it, lets think about how to do it better.
Your already paying for this kind of stuff. Whether you want to or not.