It’s interesting how this thread, if memory serves, has gone in kind of a different direction than the “Is healthcare a right?” thread. The last part of this thread has been about “acceptance” it seems to me.
I think one thing that hasn’t been brought up here yet is that not only do some/many Americans want *control*, they also are cynically encouraged to find someone to *blame* when there is a health problem.
I saw this in some of the speeches leading up to the health care vote. Politicians would pick tragic examples of children and imply that it was only our lack of caring or health insurance that *caused* the problem (or could fix it), when in reality sometimes bad things just happen, and no amount of money will fix it.
I think things have gotten very cushy in the west (probably the cushiest in human history, right?), and folks are now naturally drifting to the mindset that tax dollars can (and should) be used to try to eliminate all misfortune and give everyone an equal outcome.
No amount of money will do that.
Regarding the original topic of this thread, when I first heard of the provision about insurance for 26 year olds, my first thought was, “wow we’re extending the definition of childhood even *further*”. I admit I was pretty immature at 26, but I certainly wasn’t on my parents’ policy. Where might this end? Might brian be lobbying us to extend it to 30 or 35 in a few years? Maybe we should extend the dependent child exemption to that age? Yeah, that would be good for our society…
