[blaymakar]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') think employer-based health care, and the subsidies that encourage it, is one of the main impediments to real health care reform in the US.

[jbrovont]

Deserve, as in possessing an obligation? No.

As a society that values quality of life, I think we have a moral obligation to ease another's suffering if it is within our means. Personally, I don't think it's a matter of deserving, I think it's a matter of what you value. If you value the lives and feelings of American individuals, then you'll do things to improve their lives, and to care for them. Conversely, if you only value how American individuals might benefit you, it's not a matter of not knowing their needs; it's a matter of not caring what those needs are.

Interestingly, this is the root of disenfranchisement: if my society doesn't value or recognize my ability to contribute to it, why should I care what happens to the others around me either?

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')o people who don't have insurance deserve medical care?

[vision-master]

Looks like the classic 'us' versus 'them'.

Fences ppl place in their minds.........





Out & in

[Cog]

Good fences make good neighbors.