tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641216.post6108445133308747287..comments2023-04-02T09:03:44.758-05:00Comments on brain lynt: Health insurance is an enemy of freedomcafiendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749761363337659545noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641216.post-34991030966391638512017-02-28T12:21:51.739-05:002017-02-28T12:21:51.739-05:00The person who commented, "get a better job&q...The person who commented, "get a better job" is an example of what has been troubling the country since (and before)it founding- a kind of Calvinism (Puritanism) that holds that if you're poor or underprivileged it's all your lazy fault and god doesn't love you. It's the root of the social insensitivity that has a stranglehold on society and our government.<br /> Healthcare has been commodified and conflated with health insurance and is the result of the worship of "free market" capitalism's Almighty Dollar -which has become the godhead of those who would style themselves as libertarians and proponents of "small government." Call it Corporate Calvinism.<br /> Unless and until the people of this nation wake up and realise that proper and universal health care is a human right to be provided by their government, and NOT to be held a hostage of insurance conglomerates, nothing will change.<br /> The role of government is to provide for the well-being of its people, and this is supposed to be the reason why we pay taxes. i would gladly accept tax increases if it meant that i could go to a doctor and pay with my own good looks and the taxes i paid in trust that my government cared.<br /> Unfortunately, it seems that most of the citizens of this country have been lulled to sleep by the bollocks that come out of Fox News and many if not most of their elected representatives.mike w.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10317710564489321690noreply@blogger.com