My main problem with leaving it to the states, is that some states are just downright retarded. I could see Mississippi passing some kind of "faith-based healthcare" wherein when you got sick, a Pentecostal preacher would slap you in the head and yell "BE HEALED!"
As to this:
Now, I'm not opposed to giving as many people access to this care as possible and I never said it wasn't a problem. I get the idea that you think that's where I'm coming from... and you are blanket attacking me because you think I'm somehow totally opposed to giving people access to this...
I think maybe it has something to do with this:
How can everyone have a chance of being successful, declare bankruptcy when that happens and have no worries in life? That's what you're asking for. If nobody has to worry about starving to death or being able to afford a lifesaving operation, where's the motivation to continue doing things that you may not like doing but must be done?
You certainly seemed to think that the utter lack of a social safety net was a good cattle prod to keep those lazy plebians working. BTW, despite what you've said, I think you'd
love modern-day China. Cause they've pretty much thrown that whole Communism thing out the window. Yeah, the government still runs everything, but now if you're a worker and get your hands chopped off in a factory accident, there's none of this pinko worker's compensation crap. Your ass better learn to beg really good, Stumpy, otherwise you're going to starve. But if you can start a B2B facilitator to help ship cheap plastic crap to American retailers? Oh yeah, we're talking McMansion, Maserati, Gucci suit, live-in maid, maybe a vacation house in another country.
Go to Shanghai. You will see what
REAL capitalism looks like. 5% of the population live like rock stars, maybe 20% live a "middle-class" life, and the rest are scraping s**t off the streets. And that's not counting the carnival sideshow of cripples who litter the subways, the waterfront, the shopping districts.
See, America has already been there and done that, about 130 years ago. We had a handful of guys who pretty much owned everything. A small "middle class" of clerks, doctors and other educated citizens, and then a big old mass of coal miners, steel mill workers, factory workers, etc. who just squeaked by and tried not to die too early. And as a society, we pretty much said that's not acceptable. That's why we have things like OSHA and the FDA now. So that we won't have to go through things that China is going through, like poisoned milk, tainted cough medicine and incredibly hazardous coal mines and fireworks factories.