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Comment from ruth
Time May 31, 2008 at 4:19 am

No. Go to the health department.

Why isn’t the flu killing people in the US? Oh, could be because we have an excellent healthcare system. Leave it alone.

Comment from whimsy
Time June 2, 2008 at 10:28 pm

Yes, infected people are a public health risk.

Unfortunately, the Tea PArties and GOP folk haven’t been able to resolve their dilemma that in a complex society, government by necessity becomes more complex, too.

Comment from solarianus
Time June 5, 2008 at 7:29 am

Pay for it themselves.

Comment from Jerry J
Time June 7, 2008 at 10:36 am

What OMG your a moron!!! We dont turn away people who are sick now stupid!! However with Universal Health Care we would!! Drrrr

Comment from dudiedood
Time June 9, 2008 at 8:06 am

The same way they get it now, the hospital emergency room.

Comment from cleavetoo
Time June 11, 2008 at 10:11 am

Well under extreme situations the Government has emergency health management health resources to take care of everyone affected whether they have insurance or not. So, in my opinion this does not make the case because there is already money set aside as well as resources for caring for much of the country in an epidemic situation.

Comment from I Might Be Showing Her My O Face
Time June 12, 2008 at 1:31 am

I knew it… yesterday I predicted that the swine flu thing would be used to justify even more government and even less liberty.

Sport, in a limited government model government has a role to solve problems that can only be solved by the collective. That doesn’t mean government needs to expand in the form of socialized health care.

Comment from Shovel Ready
Time June 14, 2008 at 10:07 pm

There is no inherent connnection between health insurance and healthcare. That is to say, healthcare is not limited to those with health insurance. One is not a requirement for the other. Furthermore, swine flu is a virus, so there really isn’t any medicine for it. If you get the flu, stay hydrated, stay home, and stay away from me.

Comment from Pfo
Time June 15, 2008 at 6:48 pm

No. Not at all. The problem is out of control health care costs, one solution is universal health care, how does a pandemic justify universal health care if the goal is to make health care affordable?

Comment from Critical_rationalist
Time June 17, 2008 at 8:14 pm

yes, because rationing out health care services and medicine and making people wait months for services is better than our current system!

Comment from Michael P in NJ
Time June 19, 2008 at 11:25 pm

It wouldn’t make a difference. For those who believe in it (like me), it only strengthens a belief we already had. For those who don’t believe in it, a renewal of the Black Death wouldn’t move them: Like the pre-Christmas Scrooge, they’d just say, “Decrease the surplus population.”

Comment from Moose
Time June 20, 2008 at 10:28 am

No it wouldn’t.
This is all PHOTO OP for this admin so he can appear the hero. SARS kills 36,000 people per year. Swine Flu…big outbreak…what is it 200 people? (I may be over exaggerating on the number of Swine Flu cases).
Did you like the mock terrorist flyby in NYC by the Obama Admin? OH DEAR! Why doesn’t the the government do something! That’s what he wants the outcry to be. It’s all staged to forward the agenda of a Socialist government.
PT Barnum, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
Don’t you worry…there will be plenty of calls to panic for this administration. Barry will be on the job! Johnny on the spot to create a new government department. You’ll beg him to! He’s a very good manipulator.

Comment from expertgal
Time June 20, 2008 at 5:37 pm

No. it sure doesn’t. There would be a line from New York to
California. People should stay home who have the Flu and not
all run to doctor’s offices and emergency rooms. The Media has
created a panic mode. Next you’ll want government to also
provide and pay for life insurance for everyone also, right? You
and others have this mentality that our government is Big Daddy.
That is not what government is for and as you can see , the
more they take on, the more we’re in debt (now in trillions of
dollars, which is scandalous).

Comment from JC
Time June 20, 2008 at 8:22 pm

It actually does, considering the threat of a virus is not a matter of individual risk, but one that we all face if we do not take collective action.

Comment from Joe S
Time June 23, 2008 at 6:54 am

Let’s imagine a free market in health care and insurance [1]. How would a free market insurance company [2] operate?

An insurance company makes money by taking premium, controlling costs and helping policyholders minimize losses. That last one is critical. Our interests are aligned by insuring risks that policyholders want to avoid. For instance, no one wants a home to burn down. The policyholder loses his possessions while the insurer has to pay a claim.

Likewise, a pandemic outbreak will increase claims to insurers at numerous levels. It will stress health care insurers. It will lower economic activity and so reduce policyholders’ ability to pay premiums. And it will lead to higher mortality and so increase life insurance claims.

Free market insurers would have incentives to fight the outbreak of a flu pandemic *even among people that they don’t insure*. Because the government monopolizes management of these pandemics through tax funding, insurers can not compete with their premium funded businesses. They have no incentive to manage pandemic risk but can only sit back and prepare for the possibility that government efforts to manage the risk might fail.

If government management of a pandemic fails, it should make a case for free market health care. Unfortunately, there will be people who will try to make the opposite case regardless of the outcome. I fear that society has become so dependent upon government that most people will accept the propaganda.

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Time January 29, 2010 at 5:12 pm

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