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Comment by bdangubic | Hacker News Reader

all of insurance and all of healthcare is "other people's money" :) it just depends where other people's money is going.

this is amazing thing to me as European living in the United States, people want Gov to spend money for education or healthcare or ... COMMUNISM!! but corporate subsidies and 984 trillion dollars to the department of offense - oh RIGHT ON - let me get another gig job to pay more to that :)

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The somewhat obvious thing you seem to be missing there is that the money isn’t being extracted by force.

Not force, just the veiled threat that if you don't pay you won't have healthcare.

Everyone will require healthcare at some point, and at the points where you need the most you can't go do some window shopping and price comparison. Why make it more difficult, cumbersome, expensive, and bureaucratic? Ideologues can be rather illogical.

Like any other service, you’ll just pay for it with your money.

How do people without money get access to this essential service?

Less sick people is better in general for a society, not only socially but also economically speaking, do you agree with this statement?

Through two options; insurance or debt.

I agree with the statement as you present it, all other things being equal.

I'm not sure why I forgot perhaps the most important; charity!

try to not pay your taxes and see if it will be extracted by force :)

Every subscription service you pay into extracts your money by force or threat. If you do not pay up, you will not get something you need to live.

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