THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF INSURANCE Or, if you prefer, I pay in now so that I will be supported if I get sick.https://twitter.com/CitizenCohn/status/839884883015118849 …
Conversations (notably on FB) have made it clear to me that many (not all) people who oppose ACA do not know at all how insurance works.
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I recall being impressed at an early age with the concept when my mother explained it to me. We pay in now, will be taken care of later.
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Efforts to politely engage — e.g., ask how they might solve the risk pool/prior conditions dilemma — result in total shutdown of discussion.
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It just becomes empty slogans about freedom, Communism, etc. Depressing in the end, when you encounter just ignorance (not diff of opinion).
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The emphasis on absolute individualism over the past thirty years has taken its toll.
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The thing is, I don't think these people actually *want* that world. But they don't think it through at all. Politics by slogans, not ideas.
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