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To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
From: NC Wanderer <larbo929@yahoo.com>
Date sent: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:22:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: XVP Health Insurance
What does this have to do with Video Poker. I think you need to find another forum to rant on.
--- On Wed, 1/28/09, bornloser1537 <bornloser1537@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: bornloser1537 <bornloser1537@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: XVP Health Insurance
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 1:13 PM
Continuing my rant...
We do know, don't we, that insurance (any form of insurance) is a form of socialism, i.e., a
redistribution of wealth? Take medical insurance, as an example.
We all pay into the system through our medical insurance premiums, ourselves, our
employers, or the "government" (in the end it is only "we" who pay, really). But, only the
"sick" get any "benefit". Wealth is therefore being transferred from all of us, to the "sick".
As long as the number of "sick" remains small, relative to the general population, and the
cost of the care of the "sick" is "modest", all is well and the system "works".
However, if the number of "sick" rises, relative to the general population, or if the cost of
their care continually rises, the system becomes unstable and begins to break down. Is
this where we are now?
What other solution is there except to reduce the number of "sick" or reduce the cost of
their care? The third alternative, i.e., continually raising medical insurance premiums, is
self limiting.
Take a look as Social Security. Are we not looking at exactly the same thing there?
Just some thoughts....
..... bl