I was trying to distinguish between different objections there.
I'm solidly against any sort of government healthcare that would support abortion (or euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide, or whatever horror is dreamed up next), and I think that (given that the Democratic Party are both the main supporters of government healthcare and the ones who tend to claim abortion is a women's-health issue) that would in practice put me against most proposals.
My generic objections to government healthcare in general, on the other hand, aren't moral ones, but merely pragmatic doubts - if I were convinced that it would work, without major harm, I might support it.
I'm not convinced by the libertarian free-market arguments (though I'm generally fairly sympathetic to libertarians), because what we have now doesn't seem to be much like a free market, so it doesnt provide a reason to support the current system.
I tend to think neither 'side' is really analyzing the sources of the problem, and that the proposals all amount to slapping bandages on the symptoms and ignoring the disease.
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Date: 2011-04-28 05:35 pm (UTC)I'm solidly against any sort of government healthcare that would support abortion (or euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide, or whatever horror is dreamed up next), and I think that (given that the Democratic Party are both the main supporters of government healthcare and the ones who tend to claim abortion is a women's-health issue) that would in practice put me against most proposals.
My generic objections to government healthcare in general, on the other hand, aren't moral ones, but merely pragmatic doubts - if I were convinced that it would work, without major harm, I might support it.
I'm not convinced by the libertarian free-market arguments (though I'm generally fairly sympathetic to libertarians), because what we have now doesn't seem to be much like a free market, so it doesnt provide a reason to support the current system.
I tend to think neither 'side' is really analyzing the sources of the problem, and that the proposals all amount to slapping bandages on the symptoms and ignoring the disease.